Sentences with phrase «first black person»

Wilmot Collins, 54, made history this year when he became the first black person to be elected mayor of a city in Montana.

Was the first black person to play for Alabama, and the first to coach for the Tide as well, and beat Tennessee twice in the Third Saturday in October rivalry as a player.

The former councilman pointed to what he saw as «progress» during his first six months in the Assembly: the ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver «s fall from power amid corruption charges, the rise of new Speaker Carl Heastie — the first black person to hold the position — and the passage of bills related to missing persons and excavation.

For Dickens, being the first black person as speaker would be a «historic moment,» but one that she believes she is well qualified for because of her time as Majority Whip.

But Labour got the first black person into parliament and appointed the first black cabinet minister.

«Many people say it — and I agree — that she was truly ahead of her time becoming the first woman and first black person to seek the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, a precursor [to] what ultimately would be a successful run for president of the United States for President Barack Obama and certainly a forerunner for actually obtaining the Democratic nomination by Hillary Clinton,» Clarke added.

Throughout my teaching career, I have realized that I am often the first black instructor (and in a few cases, even the first black person) whom my students have ever met.

Or when Donald Glover became the first black person to win an Emmy for directing a comedy.

He became the first black person to earn a medical.

For example, when asked about whether or not she advocates violence, Angela Davis offers this heartfelt response: «When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because it means that the person asking the question has absolutely no idea what we have gone through in this country since the first black person was kidnapped on the shores of Africa.»

Peele is the first black person to earn the Original Screenplay honor, while the 89 - year - old Ivory has become the oldest Oscar winner in history.

Nominee Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman to be nominated in the category in Oscars history; Jordan Peele is only the fifth black person to be nominated in the category, and the first black person to be nominated for writing, directing, and producing in the same year.

This year, the film won an Oscar for best original screenplay, making Peele the first black person to win the title.

If he wins, he'll become the first black winner (Peele also became the third person to earn nominations for directing, writing, and producing in a directorial debut — and also the first black person to be nominated for all three ever).

Hattie McDaniel, the first Black person to win an Oscar, did so for her role in Gone With the Wind as Mammy in 1939....

In a historic win for the night, Jordan Peele became the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

The following May, Ernest Green became the first black person to graduating from Little Rocks Central High.

The following May, Ernest Green became the first black person to graduate from Little Rock's Central High.

He was the first black person to be elected to the U.S. Senate.; 2.

My assistant principal, Ms. Lockhart, continued her good work and was recently appointed superintendent of Culver City Unified School District, the first Black person to ever hold that position.

Twyman, of Cave City, is thought to be the first black person to lead the state school board, which oversees Kentucky's K - 12 public schools, according to Kentucky School Boards Association spokesman Brad Hughes.

Many major American cities elected African - American mayors for the first time, and in 1972 Shirley Chisholm became the first black person and the first woman to run for the presidential nomination of a major party.

He became the first American and the first black person to receive the honor.

Hall was «the first Black person, the first Nova Scotian, and the first Canadian seaman to receive the Victoria Cross, the British Empire's highest award for bravery.»

Justice Ireland was the first black person appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court in 1997, more than 300 years after the formation of the Court.

Legal luminary Julius Alexander Isaac was the first Black person to sit on the Federal Court of Canada.

At that time, his appointment by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney made him the first Black person to be named to the position.

The first black person in space was Cuban - born Soviet cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez — in addition, he was also the first Cuban in space as well as the first person from the Western Hemisphere who was not a U.S. Astronaut to travel into Earth orbit.