Jupiter Ball Through the Years
…blasted into space on the shuttle Discovery, becoming the third African American woman to accomplish this amazing feat. After a 20-year career at NASA, Joan pursued other opportunities before returning…
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Hidden No More: Week 19 round-up
…blue baby syndrome. McKinley Thompson, Jr., Car Designer Ford Motor Company hired Thompson in 1956, after he’d completed a degree in transportation design. He was Ford’s first African American designer….
Hidden No More: Week 18 round-up
…his occupation as “photographer.” He later had a successful studio in Washington, D.C., and photographed many noted African Americans, including Charles Drew and Madam C. J. Walker. Valerie L. Thomas,…
Hidden No More: Week 17 round-up
…corals, earned a geology Ph.D. in 1984, and taught geology and biology. She even discovered a new genus and three new species of corals. You Might Also Like… Hidden No…
Planned Giving
…assets until death. In most cases, these are also the simplest types of planned gifts to create. They can be created through 1) a bequest in a new will or…
Hidden No More: Week 16 round-up
…her student at West Virginia State College’s laboratory high school, remembered her as “a wonderful teacher.” Flemmie Kittrell, Nutritionist & Educator In 1936, Kittrell became the first African American woman…
Hidden No More: Week 14 round-up
James Andrew Harris, Nuclear Chemist Harris was a key member of a group of investigators that discovered two new elements in 1969 and 1970. They discovered rutherfordium and dubnium. Harris…
Hidden No More: Week 13 round-up
…site that he and a fellow student made was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 1891. Bettye Washington Greene, Industrial Research Chemist When Greene joined Dow Chemical Company…
Hidden No More: Week 12 round-up
…in indoor climate control to design Radio City Music Hall’s heating system. Marie Daly, Chemist & Educator In 1947, Daly became the first African American woman to earn a chemistry…
Hidden No More: Week 11 round-up
…Yale in 1876, the first time any American university conferred a doctorate on an African American. He went on to teach at Philadelphia’s Institute for Colored Youth for 26 years….