Mr.calloway
It depends on if it is soccer or it is american football.
History has not recorded who the first African American was to sign a contract with the American Football League. The AFL actively recruited African American players and players from historically African American colleges. The Kansas City Chiefs, in 1963, were the first team to make the #1 pick in the draft an African American (Hall of Famer Buck Buchanan from Grambling). Among the African American that played in the AFL's inagural season of 1960 include Jim Hunt, Elbert Dubinion, Clem Daniels, Abner Haynes, Art Powell, Gene Mingo, Lionel Taylor, Ernie Wright, and Paul Lowe.
The second African American woman mathematician.
Ronald Mcnair was the second African American to go into space.
Yes scholar and African American writer and abolitionist did attend Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ball in 1864.
obama
The first African American President, who is presently in his second term of office, is named Barack Obama.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American female poet and the second among the African-American published poet. She was born in Senegambia and came to America as a slave at the age of seven.
Michele Andrea Bowen has written: 'Holy Ghost Corner' -- subject(s): Fiction, Church membership in fiction, African American Congregationalists in fiction, African American churches, African American Congregationalists, African American churches in fiction, Church membership 'Up at the college' -- subject(s): Fiction, African American Congregationalists, African American churches 'Second Sunday' -- subject(s): Fiction, Single mothers, African American clergy, African American churches, Church membership, African American Baptists
In 1884, African-American Moses Fleetwood Walker played for the Toledo Blue Stockings, which was a major league team in the American Association -- the first to do so. His brother, Welday Walker, later played for the same team, thus becoming the second African American to do so.
Larry doby
on the second floor of the courthouse.