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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Althea Gibson in 1957.
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Arthur Ashe in 1975.
He became the First African-American to win.
Althea Gibson, in 1957. She was also the first black woman to win the U.S. Open.
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