The Detroit tribune., 1940-02-10
| IST EN-
TO THIS
] BY Hobart I. Mitchell

! Somewhere read this LITTLE
poem--l pass il on 10 you
This land Is ours by rlght OF birth
This land is ours by right OF toll,
: We helped TO turn It's virgin earth
Oal sweat is in its fruitful soil.
FIRST person 10 lose life in Re-
yolutiouary War. according TO
United states Department OF In
terror was Chrispus Attucks OF
Negro.
FIRST ship built on the Pacific
coast ,i5l1) was built in part by
Z Negro labor IN the employ of Bal
boa
FIRST woman 10 attain literary
distinction in America was Ply His
Mhestley. slave girl Published
her first book OF verse in 1873
when but twenty years OF age
FIRST movement 10 free Ameri-
can slaves began In Philadelphia
,Aprl H. 1851 as Quakers orga-
nized the drst srii- slavery society
with Benjamin Franklin as presi-
dent
FIRST Negro 10 be elected mem
be- of mi Beta Kappa fraternity
was Edward 4 Bouchct 1874. Yale
University
FIRST colored Masonic Lodge
vtsrani was granted fom England
september ~, l7N Boston Mas
-achusett-
FIRST woman bank president in
tls lnNed state, Maggie Mitchell
Waaes Negro born In Richmond.
Ni-inia luly Is 1867
FIRST time in the history OF the
,o4nlry 'he Congress OF the Init
- states officially honored a dis
linsuished tolorcd American. April
TIL hithday OF Booker r. Wash
n-ion was rNtolled in an address
aeharr, hs CONGRESSMAN Arthur
W Nnlglc his first term.
First ANE Church was orga-
nlzed % Philadelphia by Richard
>len Npsi . 1916.
FIRST American TO make a clock.
i'nlimar bpnneker. negro. famous
mathemaii,iaa helped 10 las out
ae lis 20 Washington % e.
FIRST luman being 90 stand ON
he Norm Pole Mat Henson. Ne
gro member % tho Pcfr, North
Pole Expedition
FIRST mixed jury ever mpanel-
"a the United states WAS TO try
Jefferson Davis. preeideui Of the
paiedefAtc states for treason. bat
ia' case never came 10 trial. There
We're twelve white and twelve Ne
-fors Chief Justice salmon T.
aase Was 10 preside
FIRST Negro TO be granted a
pa'ent VA. Henry Blair. Of Mary
nnd ~no received official proiec-
Hou tp corn harvester, 1884
FIRST Negro 10 dine at the
Nh.ir House as the eucs, OF pre-
iisnt oi the United States 1861.
anl we hf negro 20 ride on a
nTtle,aip IS ihe guess of The lnit-
M Siat- Nays Freaecick Doug
lass
FlRS Negro noW paper was
( pubhshet % 1877 hl John Russ
wurr * Was called 'ne Free
aon's io4rnal In 1871 'ne first Nc-
lero nagsline Was published. beng
issued h 'he ANE Church
FIRST iacc girl ever 10 appear
0u ne anpas AZ West Point idcn-
'lhed with graduating member of
iho MllitasI school WAS Mis-,
NeatAa Scott 20 New Haven. conn
hanoee OF Beniamin % Davis Jr.
Nno graduated from West Point
June rs. 1885
FIRST American regiment to er-
.er tho 81 Nilricl sector during
iHo Worlds War the 3,oih In
iiaa icolOredD.
FIRST Negro woman member of
ails tte legislature Ia the pnlted
states Mrs r Howard Harper
Wa tppointcd by the governor OF
Mest Virginia TO succeed her hus-
hanu Who died on December 2l.
ie.1
FIRST normal school for colored
i'a'hfrs established in New York
b, John Peterson lS5ea.
FIRST recognized Negro physi-
iar Of whom there is any-record
vas born IN Philadelphia in 1852
James Dclham
FIRST time In the history OF the
states whore a Negros name was
necessary ON all United states cur
rcncy and securities 10 make il lc-
gal was when President Garfield.
MaN l9 l>sl nominated Blanche
kelso Bruce At the end of bis first
tenn in iho Senate Register OF TIE
lre4-urv
FIRST Colored Young Ners
Christian association was orga
uizrd in Washington n G. in 1863.
Nniaony Bowen an employee Of the
United states Patent Office its
first president
FIRST Negro preacher Of Con-
gregatlonal church In 1855. l.emuel
Hayes became the pastor Of white
congregation in Terrington. Con
necticul and in 1916 began 10 serve
another ir Manchester. - ~
FIRST Negro 10 become sur
son iu The United states Army
vas \ z Augusta. OF the rniver-
|, ,iiy Of Toronto.
FIRST Negro 10 pass bar ex.
animation to practice law in the
state of Massachusetts was Macon
y Allen $3.50
FIRST Negro 20 serve - Unit
ed states Senator and the FIRST
man OF the race TO appear in either
house OF Congress. was Hiram r..
Revels. OF Mississippi who was
called upon TO complete an uneA-
pired term and actually served
from February 25 1879 to March 3.
ISL
FIRST successful operation on
the human heart The Annals OF
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