Statistics for African American Firsts

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The first African American US President (2009)	Barrack Obama	97%
The first African American US Vice President (2021)	Kamala Harris	81%
The first African American woman (or woman of any race, for that matter) to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987)	Aretha Franklin	72%
The first African American Secretary of State (2001)	Colin Powell	64%
The first African American man to win Wimbledon (1975)	Arthur Ashe	61%
The first African American woman Secretary of State (2005)	Condoleezza Rice	61%
The first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress (2002)	Halle Berry	58%
The first African American Supreme Court Justice (1967)	Thurgood Marshall	58%
The first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (1963)	Sidney Poitier	56%
The first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1993)	Toni Morrison	44%
The first African American to win an Academy Award (1939)	Hattie McDaniel	31%
The first African American millionaire (actually first woman self-made millionaire recorded in the US) (by 1917)	Madame C.J. Walker	22%
The first African American to be invited to dine at the White House (1901)	Booker T. Washington	19%
The first African American to run for president of the United States (1968)	Shirley Chisholm	19%
The first African American Attorney General (2009)	Eric Holder	17%
The first African American US Senator (1870)	Hiram Revels	14%
The first African American author to be published (1773)	Phillis Wheatley	14%
The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950)	Gwendolyn Brooks	6%
The first African American astronaut to go into space (1983)	Guion Bluford	3%
The first African American Olympic gold medalist (1908)	John Taylor	3%
The first African American 4-star general in the US Marine Corps (2022)	Michael Langley	3%
The first African American to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)	Ralph Bunche	3%
The first African American Nobel Laureate (1950)	Ralph Bunche	3%
The first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870)	Richard Greener	3%
The first African American to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (1958)	Tommy Edwards	3%