| OBAMA | First African American U.S. president (2009-17) |
| RITADOVE | * First African-American U. S. poet laureate |
| HIRAM | Revels who in 1870 became the first African-American U.S. senator |
| RITA | Dove, who became the first African American U.S. Poet Laureate |
| BROOKE | Edward ___, first popularly elected African-American U.S. senator (Massachusetts, 1967-79) |
| FONG | Hiram ___, first Chinese-American U.S. senator |
| NAVAJOS | Members of the largest Native American U.S. tribe |
| LEE | Rebecca ___ Crumpler, first African-American female physician in the U.S. |
| ASHE | First African-American selected for a U.S. Davis Cup team |
| LORETTA | ___ Lynch, first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| ROGER | Gregory, the first African-American judge appointed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals |
| ALTHEA | ___ Gibson, first African-American to win the Wimbledon's women's singles (6) |
| ROBINSON | Jackie, first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the U.S. in 1947 (8) |
| FLORENCEPRICE | First African American woman whose music was played by a major U.S. orchestra |
| OPRAH | First African-American to top Entertainment Weekly's 101 Most Powerful list |
| MISTYCOPELAND | First African-American prima ballerina for the American Ballet Theater: 2 wds. |
| MICHELLEOBAMA | First African-American first lady: 2 wds. |
| BARACK | First African-American to be elected US president, ... Obama |
| BRAGG | Alvin ___, first African American to be elected Manhattan's district attorney |
| CORY | ___ Booker (Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate, and New Jersey's first African-American US senator) |
