the first african american to serve as us ambassador to the united nations was
Andrew Young In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Young was the first African-American to hold the position. Atlanta city councilman Wyche Fowler won the special election to fill Young's seat in Congress.
Ivan Van Sertima Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 â€“ 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.[1]