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Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published nude photos of her without consent.
The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago.
Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
James Meredith becomes the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.