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- In 1970, Chris Dickerson was the FIRST African American to win the body building title of Mr. America.
- The FIRST Black Mayor of Atlanta was Maynard Jackson, who entered Morehouse College at the age of 14 and graduated with honors from Law School in 1964.
- In 1866, David Livingstone disappeared after entering Africa’s interior in search of the “source” of the Nile river. Reporter Henry Stanley found David Livingstone five years later in 1871 living beside Lake Tanganyika.
- The FIRST black regiment recruited during the Civil War was the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment. Two sons of Fredrick Douglass served with this regiment.
- The FIRST Black Man to host his own network talk show was Arsenio Hall in 1989.
- The FIRST black woman to serve in the US Congress was Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968 as a representative from New York City.
- The FIRST Black director for the Center for Disease Control & Prevention was Dr. David Satcher in 1993.
- The author of the best-selling autobiography Manchild In The Promised Land is Claude Brown. First published in 1968, it tells about growing up in Harlem, New York City.
- In 1960, black students from Greensboro, North Carolina began their nonviolent campaign against segregation at lunch counters by staging sit-ins. They sat at lunch counters until they were either served or arrested.
- In 1983, Michael Jackson won an astounding 8 grammys for his hit album “Thriller” which sold more copies than any recording up to that time.
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