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Title Black firsts : 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering events / Jessie Carney Smith
Edition Second edition
Published Detroit : Visible Ink Press, 2002

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Description pages cm
Contents Arts & Entertainment -- Business -- Civil Rights & Protest -- Education -- Government: County & State -- Government: Federal -- Government: International -- Government: Local -- Journalism -- Military -- Miscellaneous -- Organizations -- Religion -- Science & Medicine -- Sports -- Writers
Summary "Black Firsts, a record of African American achievement, testified to a rich but often overlooked part of our history. Jessie Carney Smith, William and Camille Cosby Professor of the Humanities at Fisk University, greatly expands the new edition with more than 1,000 new stories of a people overcoming adversity to emerge triumphant, including the recent successes of modern-day pioneers like Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, Suzan-Lori Parks (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama), and Vonetta Flowers, the first African American to be awarded the Winter Olympic gold medal. Dr. Smith has revised and extended existing entries, capturing more of the remarkable episodes of discipline, will, transcendence, and belated recognition."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject African Americans -- History -- Miscellanea.
Blacks -- History -- Miscellanea.
World records -- United States -- Miscellanea.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Author Smith, Jessie Carney, 1930-
LC no. 2002154346 2003279592
ISBN 1578591538 alkaline paper
1578591422 paperback alkaline paper