Famous Firsts - Black History Month

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  1. 2. First African American Medal of Honor winner for bravery during the Civil War received in 1900
  2. 5. First African American U.S. President 2009-2017
  3. 6. First African American to serve in the US Senate 1870
  4. 9. First African American female medical doctor - New England Female Medical College
  5. 12. Second African American Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964
  6. 16. Founder of African American Literature - poems on religious and moral subjects 1773
  7. 19. First African American to win the U.S. Open Tennis in 1957
  8. 20. First African American licensed pilot 1921
  9. 21. Co-founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
  10. 23. Co-founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
  11. 24. First African American female elected to the U.S. Congress 1969-1983
  12. 25. First African American college graduate Middlebury College, Vermont
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  1. 1. First African American Nobel Peace Prize winner for mediating a truce between Arabs and Israelis in 1950
  2. 3. First African American U.S. Vice President 2021-present
  3. 4. First African American Oscar winner 1940 Gone With the Wind
  4. 7. First African American Astronaut in space 1983
  5. 8. First African American Olympic Medalist 1904 Bronze medal in 200M and 400M hurdles
  6. 10. 16th president of the United States - Emancipation Proclamation
  7. 11. First African American female college graduate 1862 Oberlin College, Ohio
  8. 13. First African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1967-1991
  9. 14. First African American State elected official - Vermont Legislature
  10. 15. First African American Medical doctor - University of Glasgow, Scotland
  11. 17. First African American Nobel Prize for Literature 1993
  12. 18. Escaped slave turned activist and author - prominent leader in the abolitionist movement to end slavery
  13. 22. US president proclaimed February Black History Month in 1976