Barack Obama is elected as the first African American President of the United States (November 4th, 2008)

Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States.

Richard Theodore Greener becomes First African American Harvard Graduate (1844)

Richard Theodore Greener is the first African...

First African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city born (1944)

Sharon Pratt Dixon (now Kelly) born in Washington,...

Grammy Award winning singer Jody Watley born (1959)

Grammy Award winning singer Jody Watley born in...