Leader Name: Douglas Wilder:1st African-American Elected Governor of a State - Virginia.Edward Brooke, III 1st. African-American Elected to the modern day U.S. Senate - Massachusetts and their Attorney General.Carl Stokes 1st. African-American Elected Mayor of a Major City - Cleveland, Ohio. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.Congressman - Harlem, New York: African-American who introduced more legislation than anyone in the history of the US Congress!

Leader Name: Barbara Jordan:1st African-American Woman Elected to Congress from the South - Houston, Tx.Condoleezza Rice:1st African-American Woman appointed National Security Advisor to the President and U.S. Secretary of State .Mary Pinkett:1st African-American Woman Elected to the New York City Council.Sharon Pratt-Kelly:1st. African-American Woman Elected Mayor of a major city - District of Columbia.Carol Moseley Braun:1st African-American Woman Elected to the US Senate - Illinois. Former Presidential Candidate.

Leader Name: Rosa Parks:Civil Rights Pioneer whose actions initiated the Bus Boycotts in the South.Andrew Young:U.S. Ambassador, Civil Rights Leader, Mayor and Congressman -Atlanta, Georgia.A. Phillip Randolph:Labor Leader, President of the Pullman Workers Union.Dorothy Height:Civil Rights Pioneer, President of the National Council of Negro Women, Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal.

Leader Name: Ronald Brown:Secretary of Commerce; 1st African-American Chairman of the Democratic National CommitteeDeval Patrick:1st African-American Elected Governor of Massachusetts.Alexis Herman:1st African-American Woman appointed Secretary of LaborColin Powell:1st African-American appointed U.S. Secretary of State, National Security Advisor to the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 5 Star GeneralWillie Brown:1st African-American Elected Speaker of the California State House; Mayor-San Francisco, CA and Chairman of California Democratic Party.

Leader Name: Regena Thomas:1st African-American appointed Secretary of State of New Jersey.James Clyburn:1st African-American Elected Majority Whip of the US Congress - Columbia, SCPatricia Roberts Harris:1st African-American Woman appointed U.S. Secretary of Heath. Education and Welfare; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Ambassador to Luxembourg. C. Delores Tucker:1st. African-American Woman appointed Secretary of State in the nation - Pennsylvania; Co-founder of National Political Congress of Black Women.

Leader Name: Dutch Morial:1st African-American Elected Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana.Coleman Young:1st. African-American Elected Mayor of Detroit, Michigan.Harold Washington:1st African-American Elected Mayor of Chicago, Illinois; also a former Congressman.David Dinkins:1st African-American Elected Mayor of New York City, New York.Lee Brown:1st African-American Elected Mayor of Houston,Texas.Tom Bradley:1st African-American Elected Mayor of Los Angeles, California; also Chief of Police of Los Angeles.

Leader Name: Rev. Jesse Jackson , Mayor Sharon Pratt,Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Rosa Parks.

Leader Name: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:1st African American to have a monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.President Barack Obama:1st. African American elected President of the United States and former US Senator - Illinois. Thurgood Marshall:1st African American to be appointed to the US Supreme Court.

Leader Name: Michelle Obama:1st African American First Lady of the United States.