Black History Month: Black Inventors Who Helped Shape American Lives
Lonnie Johnson (1949 – ) An engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Mars Observer …
Black History Month: Osteopathic Medical Pioneer Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee
Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee is a physician, educator, medical school administrator, and the first Black woman to become Dean of an osteopathic medical …
Black History Month: Medical Pioneer Dr. Kizzemekia (Kizzy) Corbett
As a viral immunologist at the National Institutes for Health, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett has played a key role in the development of …
Black History Month: Vaccine Pioneer Onesimus
In the early 1700s, New England and other American colonies were being ravaged by smallpox. However, in 1721, an African slave who …
Black History Month: Civil Pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was a fearless Mississippi sharecropper who became a powerful champion for civil rights, voting rights, and political representation during …
Black History Month: Medical & Civil Rights Pioneer Dr. William G. Anderson
He has been a ground-breaking osteopathic physician and a champion for equal rights. He was the first Black osteopathic physician to become …
Black History Month: Black History Pioneer Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson overcame a childhood where he was denied education only to become a well-known educator, author, and historian who became …
Black History Month: Business Pioneer Madame C. J. Walker
Sarah Breedlove the daughter of poor former slaves became known professionally as Madame C. J. Walker, an astute businesswoman, and the nation’s …
Black History Month: Music Pioneer Berry Gordy Jr.
Berry Gordy Jr. was a high school dropout who created an American icon. Born Berry Gordy III in 1928 (later known as …
Black History Month: Space Pioneer Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician with genius-level skills whose work as a “computer” at NASA enabled the first Americans to travel into …