1.   Dandridge was the first black to receive a best actress Oscar nomination.

2.   Kinnock reshuffle brings back Clare Short and puts more women into traditional male jobs Boateng first black to join a front bench.

3.   An unknown before the race, he was now the first black in his country ever to win a gold medal.

4.   And Bullard says the pioneering desire to be the first black on the block has receded in recent years.

5.   And GE picked him as the first black to work in technical publications, writing manuals and other material about the engines.

6.   Ashcroft said that about Justice Ronnie White, the first black on the Missouri Supreme Court.

7.   At Middlebury College in Vermont, he became the first black to join a white fraternity.

8.   Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., was elected conference vice president, becoming the first black to hold that post.

9.   Bobsledder Vonetta Flowers became the first black to win a gold medal at the Winter Games.

10.   Boyd, who will become the first black to hold one of the newspaper top two editing jobs, said he was both honored and overjoyed.