I'm pretty sure it was Jackie Robinson.
In 1962, Jackie Robinson became the first African American baseball player to be elected into the National Hall of Fame. He was also the very first African American player to play in the National Baseball league.
If you mean the Baseball Hall of Fame, it was Jackie Robinson who was elected in 1962.
Barack Obama, when he was elected in 2008, became America's first black president.
Elizabeth Ross Haynes
It was Jackie Robinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956. He was elected to Cooperstown in 1962, his first year of eligibility.
Yes, when he was elected in 2008, he became the first black president in US history.
Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers was named the National League ViP in 1949.
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He was at an earlier stage already elected as president of his party (ANC) and then campaigned against the National Party in the first democratic elections for all races. That is when the ANC got the majority of all seats and he therefor became president. So it was the people (black, white, indian and coloured) of South Africa who elected him.
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