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Black History
20th century 1900s
1901
• First African American in- vited to dine at the White House: Booker T. Washington
1902
• First African-American pro- fessional basketball player: Harry Lew (New England Professional Basketball League)
• First African-American box- ing champion, Joe Gans a light- weight
1903
• First Broadway musical writ- ten by African Americans, and the first to star African Americans: In Dahomey
• First African-American woman to found and become pres- ident of a bank: Maggie L. Walker, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank (since 1930 the Consolidated Bank & Trust Company), Richmond, Virginia
1904
• First Greek-letter fraternal organization established by African Americans: Sigma Pi Phi • First African American to participate in the Olympic Games, and first to win a medal: George Poage (two bronze medals)
1906
• First intercollegiate Greek- letter organization established by
African Americans: Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ), at Cornell Univer- sity
1907
• First African-American Greek Orthodox priest and missionary in America: Very Rev. Fr. Robert Josias Morgan
1908
• First African-American heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson
• First African-American Olympic gold medal winner: John Taylor (track and field medley relay team). (See also: DeHart Hubbard, 1924)
• First intercollegiate Greek- letter sorority established by
African Americans: Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) at Howard Univer- sity
1910s
1910
• First African-American woman millionaire: Madam C. J. Walker
1911
• First intercollegiate Greek- letter fraternity established by African Americans at a historically black college: Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ), at Howard University
• First African-American police officer in New York City: Samuel J. Battle, following the 1898 incor- poration of the five boroughs into the City of New York, and the hir- ing of three African-American of- ficers in the Brooklyn Police Department. Battle was also the NYPD's first African-American sergeant (1926), lieutenant (1935), and parole commissioner (1941). • First African-American attor- ney admitted to the American Bar Association: Butler R. Wilson (June 1911), William Henry Lewis (August 1911), and William R. Morris (October 1911)
1914
women appointed as police offi- cers: Cora I. Parchment at the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Georgia Ann Robin- son, by the Los Angeles Police De- partment (LAPD)
1920s
1920
• First African-American NFL football players: Fritz Pollard (Akron Pros) and Bobby Marshall (Rock Island Independents)
• First African-American bish- ops of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Robert Elijah Jones and Matthew Wesley Clair.
1921
• First African-American woman to become an aviation pilot, first American to hold an in- ternational pilot license: Bessie Coleman
• First African-American NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, co- head coach, Akron Pros, while continuing to play running back
• First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U. S.: Sadie Tanner Mossell, Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania
1924
• First African American to win individual Olympic gold medal: DeHart Hubbard (long jump, 1924 Summer Olympics).
1925
• First African-American For- eign Service Officer: Clifton R. Wharton Sr.
1927
• First African American to be- come an officer in the New York Fire Department in New York City: Wesley Augustus Williams.
• First African American to star in an international motion picture: Josephine Baker in La Sirène des tropiques.[95]
1928
• First post-Reconstruction African American elected to U.S. House of Representatives: Oscar Stanton De Priest (Republican; Illinois).
• First African-American mili- tary pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard 1915
• First African-American alder- man of Chicago: Oscar Stanton De Priest
1916
• First African American to play in a Rose Bowl game: Fritz Pollard, Brown University
• First African American to be- come a colonel in the U.S. Army: Charles Young
1917
• First African-American woman to win a major sports title: Lucy Diggs Slowe, American Ten- nis Association
1919
• First African-American spe- cial agent for the FBI: James Wormley Jones
• First African-American
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