Black History: Leaders and Firsts

First African American with his own network radio show

• Tim Specter

• Hiram Revels

• Nate Jones

• Nat King Cole

First African American to go into space

• Spike Blaylock

• Guion Bluford

• James Meredith

• Eric Foreman

First African American to serve in the United States Senate

• James Meredith

• Ralph Bunche

• HIram Revels

• Walter Peyton

First African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era

• Jackie Robinson

• Reggie Jackson

• Satchel Page

• David Robinson

First African American Supreme Court Justice

• Booker T. Washington

• Clarence Thomas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Clark Jacobs

First African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Arab-Israeli Peace Treaty

• Hiram Revels

• Frank White

• Stanley Turrentine

• Ralph Bunche

First African American to publish a book of Poems

• Maya Angelou

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Madame C.J. Walker

• Patrice Golds

First African American student to attend the University of Mississippi

• James Meredith

• Ralph Bunche

• Hiram Revels

• Bruce Starks

First African American to be on a U.S. postage stamp

• Thurgood Marshall

• Ralph Bunche

• Booker T. Washington

• Harriett Tubman

First African American millionaire - invented black hair care products

• Phillis Wheatley

• Patrice Motsepe

• Ruth Matthews

• Madame C .J. Walker