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1) Halle M. Berry was a high school cheerleader and beauty queen. The actress starred in Monster's Ball, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar becoming the first African American woman to win the award for a lead role. This award earned her a reputation as a talented, versatile actress.
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2) Hattie McDaniel began her career as a teen, performing for traveling black minstrel shows in the West, and later sang in theaters and clubs. In 1939 she received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind, becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award.
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3) Barack H. Obama attended Columbia University in New York City, where he earned his undergraduate degree. He then attended Harvard Law School, graduated magna cum laude, and served as the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. After receiving his degree from Harvard Law School, he returned to Chicago and practiced as a civil rights lawyer. He became a Senator of Illinois in two thousand and four. Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4, 2008. He took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, and became the first black U.S. president.
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4) L. Douglas Wilder was elected a state senator in 1969, becoming the first African American to serve in the Virginia legislature since Reconstruction. Wilder was subsequently Virginia's lieutenant governor and then was elected governor in 1990. He was the first elected African American governor in U.S. history.
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5) Maya Angelou is an American poet, playwright, memoirist, actress, author, producer and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” which was nominated for a National Book Award. Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to do so.
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6) Gwendolyn E. Brooks grew up in the slums of Chicago. Brooks' poems, technically accomplished and written in a variety of forms including quatrains, free verse, ballads, and sonnets, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. She attracted critical attention with her first volume, A Street in Bronzeville (1945). Brooks went on to win the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Annie Allen (1949), becoming the first African American woman to win this award.
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7) Anthony K. "Tony" Dungy got his first head coaching job in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. From there he moved on to the Indianapolis Colts. It was in Indy where he became the first African America head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Colts defeated the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007. At the end of this past season Dungy retired from coaching football.
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8) Frederick D. "Fritz" Pollard was the first African American, to be named to the All-America team as a running back at Brown University. He played in the NFL for seven years from 1920 to 1926. During that time he led the Akron Pros to the NFL (APFA) Championship. He became the first African America to be the head coach of an NFL team when he started calling plays for the Akron Pros; he even maintained his roster spot as a running back on the team.
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FOX 5 CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND HONORS AFRICAN AMERICAN PIONEERS.

FOX 5 CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND HONORS
AFRICAN AMERICAN PIONEERS.