African American Firsts

Name the first African American to achieve each listed feat.

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Hint	Answer
The first African American US President (2009)	Barrack Obama
The first African American Attorney General (2009)	Eric Holder
The first African American US Senator (1870)	Hiram Revels
The first African American US Vice President (2021)	Kamala Harris
The first African American Secretary of State (2001)	Colin Powell
The first African American woman Secretary of State (2005)	Condoleezza Rice
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
The first African American to run for president of the United States (1968)	Shirley Chisholm
The first African American Nobel Laureate (1950)	Ralph Bunche
The first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1993)	Toni Morrison
The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950)	Gwendolyn Brooks
The first African American astronaut to go into space (1983)	Guion Bluford
The first African American Supreme Court Justice (1967)	Thurgood Marshall

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The first African American to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (1958)	Tommy Edwards
The first African American to win an Academy Award (1939)	Hattie McDaniel
The first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress (2002)	Halle Berry
The first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (1963)	Sidney Poitier
The first African American man to win Wimbledon (1975)	Arthur Ashe
The first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870)	Richard Greener
The first African American millionaire (actually first woman self-made millionaire recorded in the US) (by 1917)	Madame C.J. Walker
The first African American Olympic gold medalist (1908)	John Taylor
The first African American 4-star general in the US Marine Corps (2022)	Michael Langley
The first African American to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)	Ralph Bunche
The first African American to be invited to dine at the White House (1901)	Booker T. Washington
The first African American author to be published (1773)	Phillis Wheatley

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