He held onto the belt until 1915.įirst Professional Black Baseball Player: On April 5, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Heavyweight Champ: Jack Johnson became the first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. She broke ground again four years later in 1972 when she was the first major party African American candidate and the first female candidate for president of the United States. She was elected in 1968 and represented the state of New York. He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871.įirst Woman Representative: Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives. Johnson and served on the court from 1967 to 1991.Įminent Scientist: George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics.įirst Senator: Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. John Mercer Langston was also the great-uncle of Langston Hughes, famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance.įamous Protestors and Activists: While Rosa Parks is credited with helping to spark the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her public bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955-inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott-the lesser-known Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months prior for not giving up her bus seat to white passengers. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio, in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in America.
Famous Lawyers, Activists, Scientists and Politiciansįirst Lawyer: John Mercer Langston was the first Black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854.
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