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... that Shirley Chisholm was the first African American candidate for president of the United States for a major political party when she campaigned during the 1972 election?
... that in 1872, Western University in Kansas, USA, selected Charles Henry Langston, abolitionist, politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, as principal of its new normal school?
... that the Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia?
... that Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi?

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...that Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War?
...that Shaw University’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States?
...that Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city?
... that the Virginia Board of Censors found the 1927 race film The House Behind the Cedars "so objectionable, in fact, as to necessitate its total rejection"?

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... that Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones was the first African-American to sing at Carnegie Hall?
...that in 1968 Eldridge Dickey was the first African-American quarterback to be drafted to a professional American football league in the first round?
...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down?
... that actor Spencer Williams played a female fortune teller in his 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.?

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... that entrepreneur Joe Dudley's multi-million dollar hair and skin care business began with a mere US$10 investment in a sales kit in 1957?
... that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
... that after retiring from the entertainment industry, actress/singer Francine Everett took a clerical job at Harlem Hospital in New York City?
... that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson?

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... that Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1933 role in Rufus Jones for President is considered to be the first portrayal of an African American president of the United States in popular culture?
... that Pocahontas Island, where evidence of prehistoric Native American artifacts were found, would later become the first free black settlement in the U.S. state of Virginia?
... that pioneering African American aviator Hubert Julian was an associate producer for the 1940 race film The Notorious Elinor Lee?
...that in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago?

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... that African American actor Lorenzo Tucker, the star of the 1932 race film Veiled Aristocrats, was dubbed the "black Valentino" because of his striking good looks?
... that Pernessa C. Seele, the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006?
... that a civil rights lawsuit brought by Andrew W. Cooper led to the election of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
... that Mule Bone, a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?

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