If It Were Leap Year
Politicians
Hiram Revels
In 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. Born in North Carolina in 1827, Revels attended Knox College in Illinois and later served as minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Frederick Douglass
In 1848, Frederick Douglass became the first African-American presidential candidate of the US. His candidacy largely preceded black suffrage and coincided with legal slavery in the U.S. %20(6).jpeg)
Barack Obama
In 2009, Barack Obama became the first Black-American presidential candidate nominated by a major party, namely the Democrats.
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder
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Robert C. Weaver
Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American to serve in a president's cabinet when he was appointed secretary of housing and urban development by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966.
Frederick Madison Roberts
Frederick Madison Roberts, was born September 14, 1879 in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was a newspaper owner, editor, educator and business owner, and California's first known African American state legislator.
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Shirley Chisolm
Shirley Anita Chisholm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005, was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
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Attorneys
Macon Bolling Allen (1816-1894) Considered to be both the first African American attorney to practice law in the United States and to hold a judicial position, Macon Bolling Allen broke numerous barriers.
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Charlotte E. Ray
Ray, married name Charlotte E. Fraim, (born January 13, 1850, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 4, 1911, Woodside, New York), American teacher and the first black female lawyer in the United States.
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Dr. James McCune
Dr James McCune Smith, the first Black person from the US to earn a medical degree, who has been called the foremost Black intellectual in the 19th-century US.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, born Rebecca Davis, was an American physician, nurse and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.
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Mary Eliza Mahoney
Mary Eliza Mahoney was an early member of what would later become the American Nurses Association (ANA). In 1908, Mahoney co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with Adah B. Thoms. Mahoney was a prominent advocate for equality in nursing education, as well as a passionate supporter of women's suffrage.
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Religious Leaders
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Richard Allen
Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) was a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential Black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States.
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Jarena Lee
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Black Fashion
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Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe is widely regarded as the first well-known Black American fashion designer. Lowe was born in rural Alabama in 1898. The granddaughter of slaves learned to sew and make clothes from her mother and grandmother.
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Peggy Ann Freeman
Peggy Ann Freeman, known professionally as Donyale Luna, was an American supermodel and actress who gained popularity in Western Europe during the late 1960s
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Andre Leon Talley
André Leon Talley: 'No one was more soulful and grander than you were' André Leon Talley, the towering legend who shattered expectations surrounding race in the fashion industry as the rare Black editor in a predominantly White and elitist industry.
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Downtown Burbank Ambassadors
Sam: Head Ambassador
Stephon
I believe there are 3 others, but I do not know their names; working on it.
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