Born into the Maafa (Atlantic slavery) in the 1770s, York achieved fame as the sole African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Virginia...
James Augustine Healy (April 6, 1830 – August 5, 1900) was the first Roman Catholic priest and the first bishop in the United States of any known African descent....
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña ( August 10, 1782 – February 14, 1831), the Mexican national hero was the first Black president in North America, when...
David Abner, Jr. was the first Black person to graduate from a Texas institution of higher learning. Abner was born in Upshur County, Texas, on November...
Janet Harmon Bragg was an American amateur aviator. She was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence. Janet Harmon was born Jane...
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his lifetime and after his death...
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