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Became the nation's first Historically Black College and University (HBCU).

What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania



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In 1837, he became the first black American to receive a medical degree.

Who is James McCune Smith, MD.

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The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels


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The first Black educator to teach openly in a school for formerly enslaved students, and the only Black woman to publish a memoir of her Civil War experiences.

Who is Susie King Taylor

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Was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.

What is The NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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The first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle.

What is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.




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The first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.

Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney



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In 1968, this female became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.

Who is Shirley Anita Chisholm

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She was the first African American teacher and principal hired in the Los Angeles public school system.

Who is Bessie Bruington Burke

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The first African-American model to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated and model for Victoria's Secret.

Who is Tyra Banks

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An American educator, minister and politician. He was recognized as the first African American to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university, graduating from Middlebury College in 1823.

Who is Alexander Lucius Twilight

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The first Black woman to own and operate a drugstore. She graduated from the Pharmaceutical College, now the Howard University College of Pharmacy, in 1897

Who is Julia Pearl Hughes

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The first African American in the United States to be elected governor of a state. 

Who is Lawrence Douglas Wilder

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The first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia with a degree in Education .

Who is Mary Frances Early

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The first African American FEMALE business owner.

Who is Madame C.J. Walker

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Who was the first African American professor at Harvard?

Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

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Became the first black woman in the United States to receive an MD degree. She earned that distinction at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts

Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD

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The first African American to become mayor of a town in U.S. history.

Who is Pierre Caliste Landry

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He was the first African American professor in American. 

Who is Charles Lewis Reason

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The country's first major Black filmmaker, and he directed and produced 44 films over the course of his career.

 Who is Oscar Micheaux

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 The first Black president of an American college. Named president of Avery College in Pennsylvania in 1856, he also later served as president of Liberia College.

Who is Martin Henry Freeman


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Performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893 and founded Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses (the first black-owned hospital in America) in 1891.

Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

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The first Black mayor of Atlanta

Who is Maynard Jackson

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A one-room school house located in lower Manhattan, was established in 1794 and held about 40 students.

What is the first African American Free School

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It was the first Black-oriented magazine in the United States to attain national circulation. Was founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson of Chicago.

What is Ebony

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