The Harlem Rens were the first African-American basketball team and they were actually founded in 1922. They played from 1922 until 1948.
David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927) was the Mayor of New York City from 1990 through 1993; he was the first and is, to date, the only African American to hold that office.
1927-The Model A Ford 1929- Kodak 16mm film 1927- First American to transmit a picture of a moving object 1922- Vitamin E was discovered
The largest event that caused African Americans to leave the south was the great flood on the Mississippi River in 1927. The flood and its aftermath are documented exquisitely in a book entitled "Rising Tide" by author John Barry. The flood is one of the singular events in American History, and very few people knew about it until Barry's work was published. An excellent read by one of the best American non-fiction writers.
The first movie with sound, "The Jazz Singer" came out in 1927.
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Harlem Globetrotters
The Harlem Rens were the first African-American basketball team and they were actually founded in 1922. They played from 1922 until 1948.
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David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927) was the Mayor of New York City from 1990 through 1993; he was the first and is, to date, the only African American to hold that office.
Althea Gibson, I believe she was born on Aug. 25 1927, Authur Ash for the Men.
Sidney Poitier, who also is an American citizen -- born on February 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida.
In 1927 the first Africa Amirican to star in an an international mottion picture: Josephine Baker in La Sirène des tropiques.
The Harlem (Chicago) Globetrotters.
Wings (1927)