Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove) was America’s first African American millionaire businesswoman. Mixing one concoction of oils after another in a washtub, she
Dr. Mae C. Jemison is an engineer, physician and former astronaut. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in chemical engineering and later earned
George Washington Carver was born in 1860. Born of slave parents in Diamond Grove, Missouri, Carver was rescued from Confederate kidnappers as an infant. At
Dr. Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe, a tool that corrects cataracts during eye surgery. Cataracts are an eye condition that can lead to blindness,
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Miriam Benjamin, a teacher and attorney, became the second African American woman to be awarded a patent. In 1888, she invented a special type of
Sarah Boone, a dressmaker, made a change to the ironing board to make it easier to iron sleeves and the bodies of women’s clothes without
Born in Maryland on November 9, 1731, Benjamin Banneker is often known as the “First African American Scientist.” He built a wooden clock that kept
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On April
Benjamin Banneker is often known as the “First African American Scientist.”
Madam C.J. Walker went from being a laundress to America’s first self-made African American millionaire businesswoman.
George Washington Carver created 325 different uses for the peanut.
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