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African American pioneers have their story recorded in reliable sources, so I wouldn't worry about us being swamped with too many of these biographies. In fact, one of the big issues stressed at our editing event has been that it's been really hard to find role models for young people, because so few stories like this are available. I don't know if you've tried getting oral histories from folks about the civil rights era in the US, but my experience is that there are enough difficult and painful stories from that time that many people would rather not say very much about it at all. Yes, you could merge these African American firsts into the history of the educational institution, but essentially that gives you a section about "here is all the negativity associated with ending segregation ..." which can easily turn into angry edit warring, or deleting material for PR purposes. Handling the topic of desegregation in a US institution as a biography instead, "This is the first African American to attend, what is known about them, and what they are willing to disclose" is a more straightforward and NPOV way to approach the topic.
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Knowledge have to fix that issue first (Sorry! I know how shitty and unhelpful that answer is!). This is, of course, different from subjects that are well-covered and represented in narrow bodies of work that are unknown to large groups of people i.e., there are many good sources but no one has written an article about the topic yet.
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Knowledge sense, of course). It may also be more appropriate to include information about these individuals in other articles such as their alma mater's article or new articles about desegregation, education, etc. That would be in line with our typical approaches to inclusion of information about individuals who have only limited notability e.g., only notable for one specific fact such as a crime or important achievement.
482:. Perhaps it would help if you could indicate what makes him an "African American first". Currently, the article only says that he is the first African American to graduate in dentistry from that particular school. Is there anything more to it; was he the first to graduate as a dentist in the country, or in the state, or something similar? Otherwise, we would expect to have an article about the first person of every race who graduated in every field from every university - obviously that won't work so can you give us something more to work with... --
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African American STEM professionals go for now, to encourage people to continue surfacing information for us on this important topic?
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Yes, there's more to it. A single Black dentist was a *really big deal* in the context of the times, because Black people and White people touching, even for purposes of medical care, was considered shocking by people who were racists. Having a Black dentist meant that Black people got care! If you
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