African American Firsts

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1. Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice? Clarence Thomas Antonin Scalia Sandra Day O'Connor Thurgood Marshall

2. Which Ivy League college was the first to employ an African American as president? Columbia Yale Brown Harvard

3. Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar. For which movie did she win it? Answer: (Four Words)

4. Who was the first African American major league baseball player? Dan Bankhead Moses Fleetwood Walker Jackie Robinson Roy Campanella

5. Who was the first African American US Secretary of State? Colin Powell Madeleine Korbel Albright Condoleezza Rice Warren M. Christopher

6. Who was the first African American US Senator? Edward Brooke Hiram Revels Carol Mosely Braun Barack Obama

7. Who was the first African American to star in a network television show? Bill Cosby Ethel Waters Nat King Cole Diahann Carroll

8. Who was the first African American to have his/her face put on a postage stamp? Rosa Parks Nat King Cole Jackie Robinson Booker T Washington

9. Who was the first African American golf professional golf champion? Answer: (Two Words)

10. Who was the first African American to win a Nobel prize for literature? Toni Morrison Jamaica Kincaid Leon Forrest Alice Walker