The closest match is Dr. Ralph Bunche. He was the first Black American to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. He was presented with the award in 1950. In 1963 President Kennedy awarded him with the Medal of Freedom.
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Her father was only 1/4 (Afro) Venezuelan and mostly African American and identified as such. And the Black award don't exclusively award African Americans and exclude non African American Blacks. They award black people regardless of background.
There is no Academy Award for black actresses. But on March 24, 2002, Halle Berry became the first African-American woman to win the Best Actress award for her performance in "Monster's Ball" (2001).
The first African American person to receive a Grammy award was Count Basie. The second was singer Ella Fitzgerald. They both won in the same year.
Joe Black MVP Award was created in 2002.
Yes She Did.Sonia Sanchez Awards PEN Writing Award and the American Academy of Art and Letters $1,000 award to continue writing, honorary Ph.D. in fine arts, Wilberforce University, 1973, National Education Association Award, 1977-78, Honorary Citizen of Atlanta, 1982, Tribute to Black Womanhood Award by black students at Smith College, 1985 American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, 1992-93.
Arab American Book Award was created in 2006.
The first African-American male to win an Academy Award was Sidney Poitier, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1963 for his role in Lilies in the Field.
The Coretta Scott King Award (CSKA), named for Coretta Scott King, is an award that is awarded to African-American authors and illustrators. The award is typically awarded to those who portray the African-American experience to a youth audience.
Walter Camp Distinguished American Award was created in 1978.
Andrea Davis Pinkney won the 2013 Coretta Scott King Award for an author for "Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America". Bryan Collier won the award for an illustrator, for "I, Too, Am American".
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