1. Who was the first African-American U.S. Senator?————-Hiram Revels
2. Who was the first African-American man to win the Academy Award?
——James Baskett
3. Who was the first African-American woman to win the Oscar?
——Hattie McDaniel
4. Who was the first African-American woman to become a State Representative?
——-Carol Moseley Braun 5. Who was the first African-American millionaire?
——-Madame C. J. Walker6. Who was the first African-American to ever vote in the U.S.?
——-Thomas Mundy Peterson
7. Who was the first African-American to go into space?
——–Guion Bluford
8. Who was the first African-American to fly solo around the world?——Barrington Irving,
9. Who was the first African-American billionaire?
——-Robert Johnson
10. Who was the first African-American person to run for U.S. President?
—–Charlene Mitchell
11. Who was the first African-American man to win an Emmy?
——Harry Belafonte
12. Who was the first African-American woman to win an Emmy?
——Isabel Sanford
13. Who was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize?
——-Ralph J. Bunche
14. Who was the first African-American to win the Pulitizer Prize?
——.Gwendolyn Brooks
15. Who was the first African-American to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery?
——–James Parks
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February 5, 2008
# 2 – Sidney Poitier – 1963 for Best Actor
James Baskett was the first Black to be given an Honorary Oscar for his role as Uncle Remus.
He died a couple of months after receiving it.