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Sergeant William Carney was the first African-American to receive the Medal of Honor
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Sarah Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent. She received it in 1885 for a bed that folded up into a desk.
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History has not recorded the first African American who played golf. However, the first African American to receive full Professional Golf Association status was Charlie Sifford in 1960.
The first African American to receive a patent for an invention was Thomas L. Jennings. He invented a process of dry cleaning in 1821.
Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent.
He was the first African American to receive a PhD in math.
He was the first African American to be the Harvard Law Review Editor.
William Harvey Carney was the first African American to perform an action for which a Medal of Honor was awarded, but Robert Blake was the first African American to actually receive the Medal.
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