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- 4. Jackie Robinson was the first African American Major League ________ player.
- 6. Freedom's Journal was the first African American owned and operated _________
- 7. Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become an ___________.
- 8. The jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, became the first African-American to win a _______ award.
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- 1. George Edwin Taylor was the first person to run for_______, while Barack Obama was first person to hold the title.
- 2. Madam C.J. Walker was an African American entrepreneur cited as the first female self-made __________ in America.
- 3. In 1987, Aretha Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the _(three words)_ Hall of Fame.
- 5. In 1920 Fritz Pollard became the first African-American to play in the National ________ League during its formative years.
- 9. The Lincoln Motion Picture Company in Omaha, Nebraska is considered the first African-American _____ production company in the country.