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On June 15, Henry O. Flipper became the first African American to graduate from West Point.
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He published History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. It was one of the fist publication about Black culture and history.
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He became the first African American to get a philosophic doctorat in the University of Harvard.
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American activist engaged in anti-racial reforms and known for the foundation of The Atlanta Neighborhood Unions in 1908.
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This intellectual and cultural revival of African American arts was encouraged by Alain Locke, W.E.B. Du Bois and Jessie Redmon Fauset.
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He was an African American activist for the Civil Rights after being a poet who involved in the Harlem Renaissance, moment of revolution ideas and jazz song.
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Jesse Owens was considered to be the first Black mondial athlete. At the Berlin 1936 Olympics, he won four gold medals and he standed for the figure of African Americans.
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William Dabney and the men of the 320th barrage balloon battalion, all African American soldiers, took part of the D-Day invasion on 6 June of 1944. This battalion was recently honored as the only Afro-American unit involved in this invasion.
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James Baldwin is an African American writer that revealed his homosexuality in one of his books. He went to the US in 1954 to defend the rights of AfricanAmerican.
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Activist for equality between Black and White people, he pronounced the famous speech : "I have a dream".
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As a tennisman, Arthur Ashes was the first African American to play the Davis-Cup and to win a Grand Chelem tournament. He was also involved both in health and civil rights especially against the South African apartheid.
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Foundator of the first African American newspaper and the first African American to be ranked in the 400 richest Americans.
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This South African pacifist activist was opposed to racial segregation ; for his acts, he got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Although he was South African, his action impacted the whole world and not only his country.
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Barack Obama is the first African American elected as President of the United States of America. During his term, he acted a lot for African American civil rights and tried to make them evolve positively.
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Kamala Harris is the first woman and African American to be elected as Vice-president. In being elected as Vice-President, she makes the image of African Americans and women evolve positively.