African American Firsts

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

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

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? Moses Fleetwood Walker Jackie Robinson Dan Bankhead Roy Campanella

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

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

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

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

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? Leon Forrest Alice Walker Jamaica Kincaid Toni Morrison