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Did you know:

  • 1876 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

First African American to earn a doctorate degree: Edward Alexander Bouchet (Yale College Ph.D., physics; also first African American to graduate from Yale, 1874)

  • 1885 <o:p></o:p>

First African-American woman to hold a patent: Sarah E. Goode, for the cabinet bed, Chicago, Illinois

  • 1901 <o:p></o:p>

First African American invited to dine at the White House: Booker T. Washington

Washington in 1901 was the first African-American ever invited to the White House as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt.

  • 1903 <o:p></o:p>

First Broadway musical written by African Americans, and the first to star African Americans: In Dahomey

First woman to found and become president of a bank: Maggie L. Walker, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank (since 1930 the Consolidated Bank & Trust Company), Richmond, Virginia

  • 1926 <o:p></o:p>

First African-American woman to receive a degree (Ph.D.) from Yale University: Otelia Cromwell, who had previously been the first African-American graduate of Smith College.

· 1950<o:p></o:p>

First African-American star of a network television show: Ethel Waters, Beulah

· 1956<o:p></o:p>

First African-American male star of a network television show: Nat King Cole, The Nat King Cole Show

  • 1960 <o:p></o:p>

First African-American US presidential candidate: Rev. Clennon King, on the Independent Afro-American party

  • 1990 <o:p></o:p>

First elected African-American governor: Douglas Wilder (Democrat; Virginia)

  • 1917 <o:p></o:p>

First African-American woman to win a major sports title: Lucy Diggs Slowe, American Tennis Association

  • 1956 <o:p></o:p>

First African-American Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson (doubles, with Englishwoman Angela Buxton); also first African American to win a Grand Slam event (French Open).

· 2009<o:p></o:p>

Disney is adding its first African-American princess to the Disney Princess franchise.
"USA Today" reports Princess Tiana is slated to make her big screen debut later this year in the animated musical "The Princess and the Frog."
She will be the first princess introduced by Disney since 1998's Mulan

Topics: Black, History, Month
BloodyDragon
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  • February 22, 2009
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