Rosa Parks is one of only four Americans to receive the honor of lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda.
Lawrence Douglas Wilder became the first African American governor in America in 1990.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. is the black person with the most Grammy awards. He collected an astonishing 80 nominations and 28 awards in a career that spanned 60 years.
A whooping 17 African Countries gained independence in 1960.
The spacecraft that carried the first African American to space was called the Orbit Challenger. The name seems like something from a sci-fi movie!
Cathay Williams became the first African American woman to enlist in the military in 1866.
Lauryn Williams is one of five athletes to have won both a summer and winter Olympic medal and was the first woman to do so.
Ralph Bruce received the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a cease-fire between Israelis and Arabs in 1948!
The first-ever public sale of slaves was in Portugal in 1444.
The Ethiopian calendar system is seven years behind the rest of the world!