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