1. Ralph Bunche in 19502. Don Barksdale in 1948
3. Althea Gibson in 1956 at the French Open
4. P.B.S. Pinchback was appointed governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872 through Jan. 13, 1873, during impeachment proceedings against the elected governor
5. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia in 1990-94
6. Hiram Revels of Mississippi
7. Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina
8. Robert Lawrence Jr. in 1967 (died in a training flight crash).
9. Guion Bluford was first in space in 1983.
10. Mae Jemison was first black female in 1992.
11. Ruth Simmons in 2001 at Brown University
12. Phyllis Wheatley in 1773
13. Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer in poetry in 1950.
14. Moneta Sleet Jr.
15. Toni Morrison in 1993
16. Marian Anderson in 1955
17. Oscar Micheaux in 1919
18. Hattie McDaniel in 1940 as supporting actress in Gone with the Wind
19. Dorothy Dandridge
20. Nat King Cole in 1956 on The Nat King Cole Show
21. John Baxter “Doc” Taylor in 1908, as part of the 4 x 400 meter relay team. (The first medal ever won by an African-American was in 1904 by George Poage, who won two bronze medals in the 200 meter and 400 meter hurdles.)
22. Vonetta Flowers in 2002 in the bobsled
23. Alice Coachman in 1948 for the high jump
24. Madame C.J. Walker. Robert Johnson in 2001, Oprah in 2003
25. Patricia Robert Harris
26. February 1926
27. Jean Baptise Pointe DuSable
28. Frederick Douglass
29. Mary McLeod Bethune
30. Larry Doby
31. Johnathan Jasper Wright
32. B.O. Davis Sr.
33. Robert C. Weaver
34. Patricia Robert Harris
35. Asa Phillip Randolph
36. Freedom’s Journal