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list the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd African american to go to space. list the 1st and 2nd African american to run a president. list the very first African american to help start the Civil Right Act.

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The first three African Americans to travel into space – Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford and Fred Gregory.

Run for president- In the 1984 presidential election and 1988 presidential election, Jesse Jackson was the first major-party black candidate to run nationwide.

Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman to campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1972.

Civil rights movement- Rosa Parks

On December 1, 1955, the modern civil rights movement began when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

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