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Alexander Lucius Twilight
Alexander Lucius Twilight, who was probably the first Black to graduate from an American college, received B.A. degree at Middlebury College.
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Sep
9
1817
Anthony Mackie Has A Problem With The Lack of Diversity In Marvel Studios
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Philip R. Cousin (1933-).
In 1984, Philip R. Cousin was the first black from a predominantly black denomination to preside over the National Council of Churches. This African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister has served with destinction as bishop and college president.
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Jan
0
1984
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Professor Arthur Lewis of Princeton. He was the first Black cited in a category other than peace.
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Nov
15
1979
Holder thrilled with Gabriel return
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First Black Artist to Design a U.S. Postage Stamp
On sale this day was a stamp designed to commemorate the one-hundreth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was designed by George Olden which made him the first Black to design a U.S. postage stamp.
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Aug
16
1963
Monday Night Politics
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Butterfield, George Kenneth, Jr. (1947– )
North Carolina Congressman George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. was born in Wilson, North Carolina on April 27, 1947 to a father who was a dentist and civic leader as well as the first black elected official in eastern North Carolina in the 20th century; and a mother who was a classroom teacher for 48
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Apr
27
1947
Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy Jr. is the founder of Motown Records, the first black owned music label in the U.S. He was born on November 28, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan to Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller Gordy. He had seven other siblings and was the seventh of his eight siblings. He is a descendent of a white
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Nov
28
1929
Newton Alderman
Matthew Jefferson was the first Black to serve on the Newton Board of Aldermen. He repeatedly won election to the board in nine city-wide election campaigns after being chosen to join the board in 1968. In all he served as alderman for 20 years, six of those years as president.
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Government: Ohio state.
In Cleveland Ohio on November 13, 1967, Carl Stokes was the first black elected mayor of a major city. Carl Stokes, grandson of a slave, won the mayoral election over Seth Taft, grandson of President William H. Taft.
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Nov
13
1967
Charity Earley
Born on this day, Charity Earley became the first Black commissioned officer in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942.
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Dec
5
1918
First black CPA
Jesse B. Blayton became the first black certified public accountant in the United States.
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Jan
0
2000
Early Boston Latin Graduates
Parker Bailey (Class of 1877) and Clement Morgan (Class of 1886) were the first Black graduates of the Boston Latin School. Both went on to Harvard College. Bailey pursued a lifetime of teaching at the M Street High School in Washington, D.C., Morgan graduated from Harvard Law School and served as
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Samuel David Ferguson
Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops.
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Jun
24
1885
Edward A. Bouchet
Edward A. Bouchet received the Ph.D. degree in physics at Yale University and became the first Black to receive a doctorate at an American University.
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Nov
7
1876
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Dec
22
1943
John S. Rock
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Dec
3
1866
Government: local (Mississippi).
In Fayette, Mississippi on May 13,1969; James Charles Evers (1922-) was elected the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town. In June 1971, he became the first black in this century to seek the governors office.
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May
13
1969
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Quit Playin’: Mandate My Ass!
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First Black Secretary of Agriculture
The position of Secretary of Agriculture was awarded to Alphonso Michael Mike Espy, making him the first Black to hold this position.
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Dec
24
1992
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First Black-owned station in US, WGPR-TV Detroit, begins broadcasting, 1975
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Sep
29
1975
J.C. Watts becomes the first Black selected to respondto a state of the union
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4
1996
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Longest Tenure for a Black Minister
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