African American & Sacagawea Contributions
Contributions of York and Sacagawea to the Lewis and Clark Expedition York: A Vital Member of the Expedition York, an enslaved Black man owned by...
Author : samepassage
Ganga Zumba
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Ganga Zumba (c. 1630 – 1678) was a leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a community of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil. He is widely...
Anna Julia Cooper
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Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964) was a visionary black feminist leader, educator, intellectual, and activist. She rose to prominence as one of the country’s...
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman
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Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding...
Timbuktu
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Timbuktu (also Timbuctoo) is a city in Mali, West Africa which was an important trade center of the Mali Empire that flourished between the 13th...
Dorothy Vaughan
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Date of Birth: September 20, 1910 Hometown: Kansas City, MO Education: B.A., Mathematics, Wilberforce University, 1929 Hired by NACA: December 1943 Retired from NASA: 1971...
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green
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Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in physics, holds the distinction of being only the second African...
Angie Lena Turner King
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Born in Elkhorn, West Virginia in 1905, Angie Lena Turner King was a chemist and mathematician who dedicated her life and career to teaching and...
Dr. Harold Amos
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Dr. Harold Amos, the first African American to chair a department of the Harvard Medical School, left an indelible mark on the fields of medicine...
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker
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Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, a renowned astrophysicist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 24, 1936. He was the only child of Cuthbert Walker, an...