Pioneers - BHB
Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
Ralph Bunche (1950)
Who was the first Black woman to run for U.S. President?
Shirley Chisholm (1972)
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first Black woman astronaut?
Mae Jemison
Who was the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Who was the first Black person to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel (for Gone with the Wind)
Who was the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city?
Carl Stokes (Cleveland, 1967)
Who was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate post-Reconstruction?
Edward Brooke (1966)
Who was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first Black billionaire?
Robert L. Johnson
Who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal?
John Baxter Taylor Jr. (1908)
Who was the first African American to serve as U.S. Attorney General?
Eric Holder
Who was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Alice Walker (The Color Purple, 1983)
Who was the first African American to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics?
Shani Davis (2006)
Who was the first Black woman to travel into space?
Mae Jemison
Who was the first African American woman to own a billion-dollar business?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first Black female self-made millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
Who was the first African American Secretary of Defense?
Lloyd Austin
Who was the first African American to win a Grammy?
Count Basie (1958)
Who was the first Black Miss America?
Vanessa Williams (1983)
Who was the first Black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre?
Misty Copeland
Who was the first Black woman to own a TV production company?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first Black U.S. Vice President?
Kamala Harris