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…west of Morehead, UNC’s Ackland Art Museum offers free admission with nearly a dozen changing exhibitions every year. Learn more at the Ackland website. Carolina Basketball Museum Sports fans will…
…west of Morehead, UNC’s Ackland Art Museum offers free admission with nearly a dozen changing exhibitions every year. Learn more at the Ackland website. Carolina Basketball Museum Sports fans will…
…women make up the majority of breast cancer cases in America, Black/African American women have the highest cancer incident rates as a percentage of the population. Additionally, the average death…
…Flight Take a full-throttle adventure through the history and into the future of aeronautics. Tales of the American South Explore unique stories of the American South. The Little Star That…
…innovation, Woods was a brilliant inventor of communication and electrical devices. But without capital to manufacture them, he had to sell his patents to General Electric, Westinghouse, and American Bell….
…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…
…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….
…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…
…is the first African American involved in discovering an element. Charles Harrison, Industrial Designer Harrison was responsible for designing 100s of products sold by Sears. The first plastic trash bin…
…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…
…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…