October 25, 1940 Became the first African American to serve as a general in the U.S. Army

1. Benjamin O. Davis

In 1823 becomes the first African American to receive a bachelor's degree in the United States, from Middlebury College in VermontMary

A.Alexander Lucius Twilight   

In 1862 became the first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree in the United States, from Oberlin College in Ohio.

A.Mary Jane Patterson                       

Was the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress in 1968? And in 1972 she ran for president...

A.Shirley Chisholm   

1960. Ran for President representing the Afro-American party

A.Clennon Washington King Jr.           

On February 1, 1960, the four of them walked into an F.W. Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North Carolina and refused to leave the lunch counter after being refused service.

Ezell A. Blair Jr,. Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. Mcniel ,David Richmond