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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898 – 1989) achieved a lot of firsts in her life. She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the first African American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, and was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Tuskegee Air Women, 1940s. Assigned as weather observers and forecasters, cryptographers, radio operators, repairmen, sheet metal workers, parachute riggers, link trainer instructors, bombsite maintenance specialists, aerial photograph analysts and control tower operators in the Air Corps.
Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman was the first African American dentist to receive a degree in the United States. Dr Tanner graduated from the Harvard University Dental School in 1869. He and George Lewis Ruffin (Law School) share the distinction of being the first African Americans to graduate from Harvard University.
I'm going international, as I often do. I can't post links or other info due to where I am, but I will mention:
Ganga Zumba - Brazilian slave revolt leader
Yanga - Mexican slave revolt leader
Antonio Maceo - the Bronze Titan, Cuban independence fighter
Arturo Schomburg - Puerto Rican Black historian
Deise Nunes - first black Miss Brazil
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez - Cuban cosmonaut, first black man in space
I still think whites are due a 'White Appreciation Month' for all their wonderful achievements towards mankind. They've earned it.
You could post white people who played significant roles in the history of Blacks.
Like Col. Higginson and Robert Shaw Two old Soldiers just doing their Jobs
Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies (photographed by Camille Silvy, 1862) She was born into a royal West African dynasty, and was orphaned in 1848, when she was around five years old, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the queen’s goddaughter and a celebrity known for her extraordinary intelligence
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