1924: Long jumper DeHart Hubbard made history as the first Black American to win an Olympic gold medal with a jump of twenty-four feet, five and a half inches. The following year, he set a new world record in Chicago with a jump of 25 feet 10 inches. A University of Michigan graduate, Hubbard was among the eight Black students in the class of 1927 and was posthumously inducted into the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1979. 1962: Roger Roberts became Lansing's first Black firefighter, serving for eleven years and championing diversity within the Lansing Fire Department.