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Black History Album .... The Way We Were
MISS MAGGIE WALKER The daughter of a former slave, who in 1903 became the first woman of any race to found and become president of an American bank. Follow #Professionalimage
♥19 Yr Old Egyptian Girl, Aisha Mustafa, Invents New Quantum (Fuel-less) Space Propulsion System♥ Aisha's new system exploits the quirky laws of quantum physics which state that in spite of appearances, space really is not vacuum but that it is a seething cauldron of fundamental particle interactions involving creation and destruction of "virtual particles." http://www.thedailybleep.blogspot.com/2013/08/19-yr-old-egyptian-girl-aisha-mustafa.html
"I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly." -Bessie Coleman
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque or obituaries mention her greatest discovery…Everyone knows Charles Darwin discovered evolution and Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, textbooks simply say the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know? Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.
Gertruda Stanisława Marciniak | Teachers Who Rescued Jews during WWII
Sister Gertruda Stanisława Marciniak, Poland - The Polish nun who hid Jews in her orphanage
♍ Marjorie Lee Brown (September 9, 1914 – October 19, 1979) was a notable mathematics educator and has the distinction of being the third African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. She graduated with a B.S. degree in mathematics from Howard University in 1935, a M.S. and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1939 and 1950 respectively. She was a member of the faculty at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC until 1979 when she retired.
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American scientist that would be responsible for creating an injectable treatment for Leprosy. Learn about her story here: http://ow.ly/c3Pgr
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Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911) was the most prominent female American chemist of the 19th century, and a pioneer in sanitary engineering. Her family was relatively poor, so she had to work to save enough money to attend Vassar College. She earned earned a Bachelor of Science in 1870.
Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi - the first female to run for President of Afghanistan. She was abandoned as a child because she's a female, and has had several attempts on her life by Taliban forces. She's still running for office.
Extraordinary Women Of History You Need To Know Now
Fe del Mundo, Harvard Medical School's first female student , was admitted because she was brilliant...and because they didn't realize she was a woman. Del Mundo founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. She attended nine years before enrollment was opened to women.
MAKERS - On This Day 1967: Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the...
February 24, 1967: Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the Nobel Prize in Physics discovery of pulsars, but she is left out of the story. Her thesis ...