Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser
Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, born in 1850 in Syracuse, New York, was a remarkable African American woman who made significant contributions to education and medicine...
Category : Science – Technology
Emma Rochelle Wheeler
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Born in Gainesville, Florida on February 7, 1882, Emma Rochelle Wheeler gained an interest in medicine at the young age of six after her father...
Henry Binga Dismond
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Henry Binga Dismond, a star athlete, medical device inventor, pioneering physician, and poet, was born on December 27, 1891, in Richmond, Virginia to Dr. Samuel...
Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes
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Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes was an African-American physician and civil rights activist. He was born on September 8, 1873, in Washington County, Texas, and died...
George Albert Flippin
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George Albert Flippin was born on February 16, 1878, in Port Clinton, Ohio, to parents who had escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad. When he...
Stephanie Diana Wilson
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Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American astronaut who was born on September 27, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an accomplished engineer and pilot who...
Warren Elliot Henry
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Warren Elliot Henry was born in Evergreen, Alabama, on a peanut farm where George Washington Carver lived and did research during the summer months. Both...
Wesley L. Harris
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Aerospace engineer Wesley L. Harris was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 29, 1941. His parents, William Harris and Rosa Harris worked in Richmond’s tobacco...
Mary Logan Reddick
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Mary Logan Reddick was a neuroembryologist and the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College. Reddick was born on December 31, 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia....
Alyce Chenault Gullattee
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Alyce Chenault Gullattee, M.D., was a prominent Howard University Hospital psychiatrist, civil rights activist, member of Union Temple Baptist Church, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority...