Arthur Ashe is an African American and the first and only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon. He is also the only black man to win the singles title at the US Open and the Australian Open.
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Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
He was the first African-American male. He won Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963). Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress 24 years before him, for Gone with the Wind (1939).
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