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Harris was the first African-American chess player to earn the USCF title of National Master. [1] He had a remarkable 5th-place finish in the 1959 U.S. Junior Open. At that tournament, he was unable to rent a room at the tournament's hotel ( Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel ) due to racial segregation.
The first black person on record to have successfully performed pericardium (the sac surrounding the heart) surgery to repair a wound. [191] Williams, Marguerite Thomas: 1895–1991 Geologist: First black person to receive a Ph.D. in Geology Williams, Scott W. 1943– Mathematician [192] Williams, Walter E. 1936–2020 Economist, social scientist
Kamala Harris at the White House, 2024 First African-American (and Asian-American) woman to be nominated as a major party U.S. presidential candidate: Kamala Harris, Democratic Party [382] First African-American descendent of Colonel John Hazzard Carson admitted to the Daughters of the American Revolution and first African-American member of ...
3. Though they were forbidden from signing up officially, a large number of Black women served as scouts, nurses and spies in the Civil War.. 4. One of the greatest African rulers of all time ...
From the hidden figures who made an impact, essential Black inventors, change-making civil rights leaders, award-winning authors, and showstopping 21st-century women, Black American history is ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to travel to Florida on Friday to deliver critical remarks in response to the state Board of Education's approval of new standards for how Black history ...
February – Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. The novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is published. 1977. Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist group, publishes the Combahee River Collective Statement.
The Harris Family is an American family of entertainers. [1] Their careers, collectively and individually, encompass theater , music , film , broadcast media and performance art . They are best known as pioneers of experimental Off-Off-Broadway theater in New York City , San Francisco and Europe from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s.