That stat is probably unknown, but USC's first All American football player was a black man, Brice Taylor. Made even more remarkable by the fact that Brice was also disabled, he was born without a left hand. This was in 1925, over 40 years before college football was completely integrated.
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Yes. Lora Hinton was the first black player to recieve a scholarship and play football at LSU.
Nat Northington, who attended the University of Kentucky, was the first African American to play in a football game for an SEC school. The year was 1967 and the game was against the University of Mississippi.
Lucy Harris was the first black woman All-American basketball player in 1997
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WR Jerry LeVias of SMU in the 1966 season. Actually, the first was John Westbrook at Baylor University: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwe60