Katherine Johnson officially began working as mathematician in 1953 alongside other women like Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan in the NACA West Computing department. After
In 1951, Mary Jackson was recruited by NACA and worked as a human computer. In 1953, Mary began working for a NASA engineer named Kazimierz
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
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
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
You may use Google as a search engine. Marian Rogers Croak is currently the Vice President of Engineering at Google. Before she worked there, she
On July 4, 2006, aerospace engineer Stephanie D. Wilson made her first journey into space on the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery. This was about 14
Dorothy and her co-workers, Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson, worked together in the NACA West Computing department. Dorothy received a promotion in 1949, becoming the
In 1916, Ella Phillips Stewart graduated from the University of Pittsburgh* School of Pharmacy. She was the first African American woman to graduate from the
Marie Van Brittan Brown lived in Queens, New York, where at the time, the crime rate was pretty high. Afraid for her safety, Marie became
Founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Mary had a strong desire for learning, but she was not able to attend school until she was eleven when a
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