Happy MLK Day STL

Since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. African Americans have been striving towards making all of his dreams come true. While there have been a few moments were it seemed as if we were peddaling backwards, there were plenty of us who kept pushing forward. I found a list of african american first and I thought I would share some of them here.
1983
First African-American astronaut: Guion Stewart "Guy" Bluford, Jr. (Challenger mission STS-8).[28]
First African-American mayor of Chicago: Harold Washington
First African-American Miss America: Vanessa L. Williams
First African-American WWE Tag Team Champions: Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas
First African-American to appear on MTV via music video: Michael Jackson
1987
First African-American woman, and first woman, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Aretha Franklin
1990
First elected African-American governor: Douglas Wilder (Democrat; Virginia) (See also: P. B. S. Pinchback, 1872)
First African American elected president of the Harvard Law Review: Barack Obama (See also: 2008)
First African-American Miss USA: Carole Gist
1993
First African American woman appointed U.S. Secretary of Energy: Hazel R. O'Leary
First African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
First African-American woman named Poet Laureate of the United States: Rita Dove, also the youngest person named to that position
First African American appointed Surgeon General of the United States: Joycelyn Elders
First African-American woman to win a national chess championship: Kimberly McClelland
1997
First African American to win a Grand Slam event in golf: Tiger Woods (The Masters)[31]
First African-American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition: Tyra Banks
2001
First African-American Secretary of State: Colin Powell
First African-American president of an Ivy League university: Ruth J. Simmons at Brown University, also the first permanent female president of Brown.
First African-American woman to win the ASCAP Pop Music Songwriter of the Year award: Beyoncé Knowles
First African-American woman to be appointed National Security Advisor: Condoleezza Rice (See also: 2005)
First African-American billionaire: Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television
2002
First African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress: Halle Berry (Monster's Ball, 2001)
First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh). (See also: Shani Davis, 2006)
2004
First African American to win Broadway theater's Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: Phylicia Rashād
First African-American female billionaire: Oprah Winfrey
2008
First African American to be nominated as a major-party US presidential candidate: Barack Obama, Democratic Party
First African American to referee a Super Bowl game: Mike Carey (Super Bowl XLII)
First African-American woman elected Speaker of a state House of Representatives: California Rep. Karen Bass
First African-American governor of New York State: David Paterson (elected as lieutenant governor, succeeded on resignation of previous governor)
First African American to own a movie and TV studio: Tyler Perry
First African American elected president of the United States of America: Barack Obama
First African American to be nominated as United States Attorney General: Eric Holder