<Li> First African - American flight attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor (Mohawk Airlines) </Li> <Ul> <Li> First African - American Grammy Award winners, in the award's inaugural year: Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie (two awards each) </Li> <Li> First African - American television journalist: Louis Lomax </Li> <Li> First African - American group to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100: The Platters ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"), January 19 (See also: Tommy Edwards, 1958) </Li> <Li> First African American to win a major national player of the year award in college basketball: Oscar Robertson, USBWA Player of the Year (in that award's inaugural year) </Li> </Ul> <Li> First African - American Grammy Award winners, in the award's inaugural year: Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie (two awards each) </Li> <Li> First African - American television journalist: Louis Lomax </Li>

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