AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRSTS

This bingo card has 166 words: Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640., Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance, Company, 1810., Black Labor Union: American League of Colored, Laborers, 1850., Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889., Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893., Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in 1905., Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, 1915., Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921., Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921., Black-owned metropolitan newspaper: Robert Maynard and the, Oakland Tribune, 1983, Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television, Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641, State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836., Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855., County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869., State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870., City mayor: Pierre Caliste Landry, 1868., U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870., U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870., Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872., Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904., Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938., Woman Head of Peace Corps: Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, 1964., U.S Senator (elected) Edward Brooke, 1966., U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966., Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967., Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969., Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977., Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989., Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, 1991., Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992., U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001., Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005., Major party nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008., U.S. President: Barack Obama, 2009., Woman U.S. Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch, 2015., Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845., Woman admitted to the bar:Charlotte Ray, 1872., Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W. Gibbs, 1873, Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919., Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946., Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966., U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967., President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002., U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869., Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950., Woman U.S. ambassador:Patricia Harris, 1965., U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977., Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, 1828, College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849., Woman to graduate from a college, Lucy Stanton, 1850., College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856., Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870., Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. ., Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington Henderson, 1877., Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907., Women Ph.Ds: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921., Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001., Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, 1832., M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837., M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847., Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864., Female Dental Surgeon: Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, 1890., Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams, 1891., Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893., Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940., Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980., President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, 1995., Oldest continuously operating black church in the U.S: Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. 1754, Oldest black Baptist Church in the U.S: First Baptist Church, 1756, First Official A.M.E. Church in the U.S: Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1794, Baptist Church:David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1773., African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794., Church-Sponsored African American College: Wilberforce University, 1856., Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879, Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906., National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of St. Peter Claver, 1909., Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: Barbara Harris, 1989., Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 2000., President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter, Jr., 2012, Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis, 1875., Professional baseball player: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884, Professional Golfer: John Matthew Shippen, Jr., 1896., World cycling champion: Marshall W. “Major” Taylor, 1899., Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904., Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, 1908., World Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908., Oldest African American golf club in the US: The Shady Rest Golf and Country Club, 1921., NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937., Professional Race Car Driver, Rajo Jack De Soto, 1923, Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): DeHart Hubbard, 1924., Major league baseball player in the 20th Century: Jackie Robinson, 1947., Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual): Alice Coachman, 1948., NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953., Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson, 1957., NHL hockey player: Willie O’Ree, 1958, Boston Bruins., NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race: Wendell Oliver Scott, 1963., First predominantly black basketball team to win an NCAA championship: The Texas Western Miners, 1966, Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe, 1968., Professional Bowlers Association Champion: George Branham III, 1985, Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988., Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997., Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley, 1999, Female Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002., Male Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): Shani Davis, 2006., Female Licensed Nascar Driver: Tia Norfleet, 2016., Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746., Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760., Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773., Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture., Woman’s autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831., Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853., Woman novelist, Harriett Wilson, 1859., Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885, Pulitzer prize winner:Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950., Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970, Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976., Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993., Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993., Radio broadcaster: Jack L. Cooper, 1925., Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949., Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956., Network news correspondent: Malvin Goode, 1962., Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965., Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV, 1975, First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978., Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986., U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778., Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863., Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865., West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877., Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949., Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, 1900., Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917., General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940., Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979., Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, 1980., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989–1993., Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: Lillian Fishburne, 1998., Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821., Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884., Member of the National Academy of Sciences: David Harold Blackwell, 1965., Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967., Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983., Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990., Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992., Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998., Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909., First Secret Service Agent, Charles LeRoy Gittens, 1956., Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921., Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941., Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: Hugh Mulzac, 1942., Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957., Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958., President of Girl Scouts, USA, Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975, Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978., Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984., Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992, Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990., President of the National League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, 1994., President of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA): Lois Jean White, 1995, Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007. and Explorer, North Pole: Barbara Hillary, 2007..

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