Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, during...
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first Black boxer to capture the world middleweight championship. He was the first African American after Jack Johnson to challenge...
Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was the first African American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), earning the doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in...
George Dixon also known as “Little Chocolate,” was a Black Canadian professional boxer. He was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class,...
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain’s highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers...
Louis Tompkins Wright was an African American surgeon, war hero and civil rights activist. Wright was “the first Black physician to be appointed to the...
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