Firsts in History Answers
- (a) Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman to earn an international pilot's license.
- (g) Paul Cuffe was the first African-American to lead a fight for civil rights in Massachusetts.
- (i) Jean Baptist Pointe Dusable was the first settler of the city of Chicago.
- (l) Sojourner Truth was the first African-American woman to lecture against slavery.
- (h) Guion S. Bluford was the first African-American in space.
- (d) Harriet Tubman was the first African-American woman to be honored with her picture on a postage stamp.
- (j) Mary Fields was the first African-American woman to drive an U.S. mail coach.
- (c) Allen Allensworth founded the first African-American town in California.
- (m) Rose Parks sparked the first major boycott of the Civil Rights Movement.
- (k) Stokley Carmichael was the first to popularize the slogan, "Black Power."
- (b) Franklin A. Thomas was the first African-American to head a major foundation.
- (e) Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first African-American to be honored with a national holiday.
- (f) Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman astronaut.
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