HA Black History Month

This brilliant research chemist developed medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroid & birth control pills.

1st African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university & 6th person to ever receive a Ph.D. in physics

Lonnie Johnson a NASA engineer developed and owns the patent on what popular leisure item

This charismatic performer with technical skill, knack for melody & improvisation made jazz the solo driven genre

 2016 film about the black female mathematicians who served a vital role in the early years of NASA's space program

She was the first African-American sculptor to achieve national and international prominence in the early 1860s.

Garrett Morgan created what items that we still use today?

"Godmother of rock and roll", broke every norm, turned a burgeoning musical style into an international sensation.

This mathematician used geometry for space travel so astronauts could land on the moon and return safely

This African American is slated to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

Harlem Renaissance artist created 60 paintings of the "Great Migration" out of the South to the industrialized north

The 1st black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on Sept. 12, 1992.

The first black female neurosurgeon in the US & later, chief of neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Michigan

This gifted mathematician is responsible for the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS)

Dr. Charles R. Drew considered the Father of Blood Banking was prevented from donating his blood

Madam C J Walker portrayed by Octavia Spencer in a 2020 Tv production is best know for.....

First jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music with his oratorio Blood on the Fields.

First to produce/direct major motion pictures showing the experience of slaves & photographed struggling black Americans

What is George Washington Carver known for?

In 1892 Sarah Boone became of of the first black woman to receive a patent for which invention?

The quilts of Gee's Bend are among the most important visual & cultural contributions to the history of art in the U.S.