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Stepin Fetchit (1st Black Hollywood star)


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Stanley Robertson (1st black Vice president for NBC)
 

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Great thread!!

Joseph Laroche, a Haitian-born, French-educated engineer traveling with his family who is believed to be the only black man among the passengers on the Titanic.

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Ralph Gilles,President and CEO of the Dodge (Designed the 300C)

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, you can say he founded the city of Chicago

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Lewis Hamilton, "the first black driver in Formula One",In his first season in Formula One, Hamilton set numerous records, while finishing second in the 2007 Formula One Championship, just one point behind Kimi Räikkönen.

He won the 2008 World Championship the following season (his 2nd season)

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Condoleezza rice, first female African-American secretary of state, might have been the most powerful black women in the world before Michelle Obama

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Marian Anderson (1st Bllack to perform with the Metropolitan Opera)

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William Grant Still (1st Black classical composer to conduct a major American symphony orchestra)
 

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Great thread!!

Joseph Laroche, a Haitian-born, French-educated engineer traveling with his family who is believed to be the only black man among the passengers on the Titanic.

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:ohmy:God, I never knew this. Props for this find.

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HAHA. he does.

I've seen every reenactment and documentary of the Titanic. And, never once did they mentioned there was a black passenger on that fateful ship. :rudy:
 

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Cleveland student David Boone worked hard to go from homeless to Harvard

"It's a lot to take someone in, particularly a teenage boy," David said. "I was kind of upset that no one would, but I was never upset at any one person."
Though the park baseball diamond was mostly isolated from crime in other parts of the park, he soon decided it wasn't safe to sleep there. He says he developed a new plan: When he wasn't in school, he would sleep in parks during the day and roam and study at night, so he'd be awake and alert to trouble.
"If you sleep in the daytime in the park, people don't bother you," he said. "You're just taking a nap. It's acceptable."

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