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First African-American woman, and first woman, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Aretha Franklin; First African-American Radio City Music Hall Rockette: Jennifer Jones; First African-American man to sail around the world solo: Teddy Seymour; First African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company: Clifton R. Wharton Jr. [280]
John Willis Menard was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia in Randolph County in southern Illinois, to parents who were free people of color. They were Louisiana Creoles from New Orleans, of mostly European and some African descent. He may have been related to Michel Branamour Menard, a French-Canadian fur trader and a founder of Galveston, Texas.
The first African American to vote in the United States after the passage of the 15th Amendment Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey , has been claimed to be the first African American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution .
William Tucker was the first known Black person to be born in the 13 colonies. He was born near Jamestown, Virginia in 1624. He was born near Jamestown, Virginia in 1624.
Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to be signed by a Major League baseball team, is shown in post-swing position in front of the stands. Robinson is wearing the uniform of then-Brooklyn Dodgers ...
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 [Note 1] – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian.He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
William Tucker was the first known Black person to be born in the 13 colonies. He was born in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1624. ... singer and music producer Sylvia Robinson produced the first-ever ...
Bishop Richard Allen (1760–1831) was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest of the nation's all-black organizations. Elected the first bishop of the AME Church in 1816, Allen focused on organizing a denomination in which free Black people could worship without racial oppression and enslaved people could find a ...