Powerpoint for young children about African Americans firsts in making history.

1. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and
the first African American to occupy the White House.

2. World Heavyweight boxing
champion: Jack Johnson, 1908.

3. Professional Race Car Driver,
Raju Jack De Soto, 1923

4. Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights
activist with the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and
the first African American to serve on the
Supreme Court of the United States.

5. Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. was the first
African-American general officer in the United States Army.

6. Hazel Johnson was the first African American
woman to become a general in the U.S. Army.

7. Colin Powell is a retired Four-Star United States Army
General who was the first African American to serve as
National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joints Chief
of Staff and Secretary of State.

8. Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., was the first
African American selected to be an
astronaut.

9. Daniel Hale Williams III was a pioneering
surgeon best known for performing in 1893 one
of the world’s first successful open heart
surgeries.

10. Marian Anderson became the first African
American to perform with the Metropolitan
Opera in New York City.

11. Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first black
Oscar winner. She won the award on February
29, 1940, for Best Supporting Actress for her role
as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind.

12. Moses Fleetwood Walker, often called Fleet, was
the first African American to play major league
baseball in the nineteenth century.

13. The first person of African descent, male or female, to
win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics was Vonetta
Flowers when she won gold in the women's bobsled
event in 2002 at Salt Lake City

14. Shani Davis became the first African American to win a
gold medal an individual event in the Winter Olympics
and the first African American male to win a gold when
he competed in the men’s 1,000-meter speedskating
championship in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in
Turino, Italy

15. Bessie Coleman became the first
black woman to gain an
international permit to fly.

16. Michelle Obama became the first African
American First Lady in 2008 when her husband
Barack Obama became President.