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Isaiah Benjamin Scott 

In 1904 Scott  became the first and only black Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop chosen without racial designation by a General Conference in the United States.

 

 

Estevanico

In the 1530's, Estevanico was the first African-born slave to traverse Texas.

William (Will, Bill) Pickett

William (Will, Bill) Pickett, rodeo cowboy. In 1972 Pickett became the first black honoree in the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. In 1989, he was also enshrined in the Prorodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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