Black History Month Firsts

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  1. 3. African American child who desegregated an all-white school during Massive Resistance.
  2. 6. First African American to be elected as President of the United States.
  3. 8. inventor, entrepreneur and member of National Technology Hall of Fame. Cofounded "thermo-king."
  4. 9. first rap group to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009.
  5. 11. "first lady of Civil Rights Movement"
  6. 12. First African American woman elected to the United States Congress
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  1. 1. First African American male to win Academy Award for Best Actor in 1963.
  2. 2. author, publisher and historian who established black history month
  3. 4. First rap artist to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
  4. 5. first African American to play major league baseball in the modern era (1947).
  5. 7. first African American to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.
  6. 10. first African American Secretary of State.