I think this could depend a great deal on what your interests are. For example, if you are interested in sports, there are a number of people that you could talk about that most people have never heard of.
One of the more interesting to me was a man named "Fritz" Pollard. He played for the first team to win the championship of the National Football League (1920!). He then became the first black man to be a head coach in the league. There would not be another black head coach of a major sports team until the 1960s.
Or you could do the Texas Western (now UTEP) mens basketball team from 1966. They were the first team to win the NCAA championship with 5 black starters -- this was in an era when many college teams in the South (including Kentucky, who they played in the final) still didn't allow blacks to play for them.
Of course, if you hate sports...
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