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.David Harold Blackwell was born on April 24, 1919, in Centralia, Illinois. After getting his love for mathematics from his grandfather he wanted to get into different colleges like The University of California and was interviewed by a women named Jerzy Neyman and she liked his appointment but from racal objectives prevented him from getting in. Then his was offered at the Southern University at Baton Rouge which he held in 1942 till 1993 until he was a instructor at Clark College in Atlanta. But he then moved to Howard University and stayed for 3 years till he was a full time professor. Soon he spent the rest of his career at UC Berkeley but retiring in 1988 after being a professor there too. Sadly he died of complications from a stroke on July 08, 2010.

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Elijah McCoy, a Canadian-American inventor and engineer, is most famous for 57 patents in the U.S. that were mostly for making steam engines run smoothly.

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Benjamin is best know as a African American scientist, but he is also a multi-talented person who self-educated himself into astronomy and mathematics. Not only did Benjamin teach himself astronomy and mathematics he was also a writer, compiler of almanacs,surveyor and a inventor. By only the age of 24, Benjamin observed a wrist-watch and used it to make his own clock from wood that struck on the hour. After the creation of the clock he created puzzles for trigonometry which showed his knowledge of logarithms. Benjamin was able to bring a positive contribution in mathematics years before any black mathematician could.

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Kelly Miller lived from July 1863 to 1939. He was born at Winnsboro, South Carolina. He had 9 siblings. He died at his home which was on his campus located Washington D.C. he died on the day December 29th, 1939. In 1886 he graduated from Howard. He earned his master´s degree in mathematics in 1901. He was also the first person at Howard university to teach sociology.

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Patricia Bath was born November 4, 1942 in New York. Patricia Bath is most famous for being the first African American that completed a residency in ophthalmology. She was also the first African American woman to receive a patent for inventing the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatments in 1986.

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By: Maya Koval
Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. He always had interest in astronomy.

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By: Dylan Miller
Lee  Stiff is an American mathematics education researcher, a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education at North Carolina State University, and the writer of several mathematics textbooks.He taught math in the middle grades and high school science 1971 after getting his A.B.S. degree in math from the university of North Carolina.

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Ernest Everett Just

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by:Markel Easley
Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea Massachusetts on september 4th,1848. His family escaped slavery before he was born, and was taken to boston. Lewis helped patent the light bulb with Thomas Edison, and Hiram Maxim. In 1864 he lied about his age to join the navy. He published a book in 1890 called "Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System". Lewis married  Mary Wilson in 1873 and they had to children. Lewis Latimer died on December 11, 1928 in Queens New York.

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Joycelyn Elders is the first African American and the second female to head the U.S. Public Health Service. She was also the first African American surgeon general. Elders was the first African American to go to the University of Arkansas of Medicine. Growing up, Elders was especially interested in biology and chemistry. Elders wanted to be a Physician. After graduating from college, she joined the U.S. Army's Women's Medical Specialist Corps. Elders entered the Arkansas Medical School on the G.I. Bill.She became an expert in growth problems and Juvenile diabetes.

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By: Celia Braccia

Mary Jackson was a major influence to most NASA space exploration trips. Starting off a journey she never knew would happen, she graduated from Hampton University with a degree for Physical Sciences and Math. She was hired by NASA in 1951  and landed in the West Computing Group. After working there for two years, she was offered a job to work for engineer Kazimierz Czarnecki. At the time of Mary Jackson working at NASA, very few women were engineers. After a few years of working at NASA, Jackson was required to train as an engineer at  Hampton High School, but needed special permission to go there because the class was made up of all white students. After completing the courses, she became the first black female engineer. She will go down in history and be remembered forever because of her commitment and hard working personality.

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By: Anneliese Craigo
Mary Jackson was a African American mathematician and aerospace engineerat the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). In 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). After 34 years at (NASA), she had earned the most senior engineering title available. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both the Federal Women’s Program, in the NASA Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, and of the Affirmative Action Program. In this role, she worked to influence both the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, engineering, and mathematics careers. She was so amazing that her character stared in the movie "Hidden Figures".

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By: Zachary Feinberg
Born on April 24, 1919 in Centralia, Illinois. He passed away on July 8, 2010. Before he passed away he accomplished many things including winning the followin awards;National Medal Of Science for MathamaticsNational Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science, R. A. Fisher Lectureship

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Born in 1929, Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.

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Born in May 1943 in Maryland, Valerie Thomas was a scientist, inventor, and contributor to NASA. She is most famous for her patented invention of the illusion transmitter.
As a child, Thomas was not encouraged to go into science,  but she ended up majoring in physics at Morgan State University, and getting a job at NASA as a data analyst.
In 1980, Thomas got a patent for her invention the illusion transmitter, which produces optical illusions via concave mirrors.
In 1995, Thomas retired from NASA. She is still alive today.

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By Eden Saunders
Marilyn is famous for was the first African American to be the director of the Public health Service Bureau. In 2006 She won the Purpose Prize from civic ventures. She also dedicated her career to helping the poor and minority families, this is because she was poor and her mother had cancer but they did not have heath care so it was very hard for them.

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By :Emiya Pavrette
Mandela was also the first black President of his country, South Africa. Mandela was born in Mvezo, South Africa to a Thembu royal family. His government focused on throwing out the legacy of apartheid by ending racism, poverty, inequality, and on improving racial understanding in South Africa.

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Charles Drew
Charles Drew was born on June 3 1904 in Washington , D.C. He was an African American physician who developed ways to process and store blood plasma in "blood banks". He directed the blood plasma programs of the united states & great Britain in world war II, but resigned after a ruling that the blood of African Americans would be segregated.

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by Craig Ellison Metfe

George Washington Carver was a very well know inventor and prominent scientist. He was born 1864 during the civil war years and the exact year and date of birth are unknown. Born into slavery, he is best known for devising his creative uses for the peanut. He went to Iowa state and then ran the African American Tuskegee institute's agricultural department in 1896. He made over 300 products with peanuts and 118 products with sweet potatoes. George Washington Carver died January 5, 1943.

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Mae C. Jemison was the first African-American female to be an astronaut. Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, AL. She was raised in Chicago. Her family moved their from Decatur searching for better education. As a child Jemison loved reading. Especially aspects of science, specifically Astronomy. She became a medical doctor in 1981 and worked as a general practitioner. On September 12, 1992 she and six other astronauts boarded the Endeavour. During her time with the stars, she was studying weightlessness and motion sickness. After retiring from being an astronaut, she became a teacher at Dartmouth College. She is known today as one of the most historical people in U.S. history.

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Mae C. Jemison                            Faith Lam

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Mae C. Jemison                            Faith Lam

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Mae C. Jemison was a engineer, physician, and astronaut. Jemison is most famous for being the first African American women in space. She was born on October 17th, 1956. In 1981, Jemison got her medical doctoral degree. When the spaceship Endeavour took off on September 12th, 1992 Jemison made history. That is when the first African American Astronaut made her mark. IN total, she spent 190 hours in space conducting experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness. She came back to Earth on September 20th, 1992. After her accomplishment, many people recognized  Mae Jemison for showing people that women and minority groups can also make a difference.

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By: Sakhmet Anyika
Cedarbrook Middle School
7th-grade student

She was an American Computer Scientist and Mathematician. She worked for NASA and began with doing Computations for them. But as technology advanced so did her knowledge of them.  When machines completely replaced 'human computers' she became an adept computer programmer. She went from a human computer to a master of technology.

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Ava Klebanoff                                        Katherine Johnson

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Ava Klebanoff                                        Katherine Johnson

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Katherine Johnson was a pioneer in American space history. She was a mathematician at NASA, her work at NASA has influenced many space programs. She was one of the first African Americans to work with NASA too. She calculated the path for Freedom 7,the spacecraft that put the first U.S astronaut in space. She also helped majorly in other missions as well. She received a number of rewards for her work, she won the presidential medal of freedom. She all around had an amazing impact on the NASA space program.

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By: Janey Amons

George Washington Carver is a famous African American Scientist/Inventor. He was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri in 1864. He became an botanist and invented over one hundred products. Some of his major inventions was the peanut crop, plastics, dyes and gasoline. Carver was also a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute. While he worked in the Tuskegee Institute agriculture department he made groundbreaking research on plant biology, he mainly focused on the development of new crops. Sadly January 5 in the year 1943 when he was 79 years old.

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Ms.Nneji is a robotics research scientist at Duke University. She spearheads a new Ph.D robotics program at Duke University. The Anita Borg scholar earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics that she got from Columbia University. While she got her masters degree in engineering from Duke.

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Oprah Winfrey                        By: Vannessa Owens

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Oprah Winfrey                        By: Vannessa Owens

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Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is the richest African American and North Americas first black multi billionaire. Winfrey was born in Mississippi, she was raised by her teenage single mother. She was molested during her childhood. She was awarded with the Presidential Medal of freedom by our former president Barack Obama.

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Dr. Williams is a famous topologist and mathematician. He is now a professor at The University of Buffalo. Dr. Williams was one of two founders of the Black and Third World Mathematicians. Williams is very well known for his studies in topology and his innovations in the mathematic field. He used to work as a research associate at the Pennsylvania State University. In 1975, he was the first topologist to apply the concept of fields, known as b=d to give a partial solution to the famous box problem, which remains unsolved even today.

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Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson is an African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. She was an amazing powerful woman who had the smarts to be involved in something so big.

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Bessie invented many devices that help patients to eat when they cant use parts of their body. She also would identify handwriting that most couldn't read. Surprisingly, after being told she could not write with her left hand in school, Bessie taught herself to write with both hands, and her feet and even her mouth.

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By:Jason Rycek
Daniel Hale Williams was one of the first physicians to perform open heart surgery in the United States. He also opened a hospital and training school for nurses that had a racially integrated staff because the hospitals did not allow African Americans to be admitted and black doctors were refused staff positions.

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Ernest Just was born on August 14, 1883. He went to Dartmouth university. Right after college he worked as a teacher at Howard university. After this job he researched at a marine biology center. He pioneered in many areas of physiology. He married a high school teacher in 1912 and had three children. Ernest Just is mainly known for his pioneering work in physiology and marine biology.

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Black History Month Project By:Jesse Packel

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Black History Month Project By:Jesse Packel

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was a very helpful, but not famous mathematicians. He was a man of many talents and was even self taught. His most famous achievement was most famous for coming up with the clock that struck hourly. He also found that you can find the length of an equilateral triangle if you know the circumference of a circle. He was one of the first great black mathematicians and paved the way from many more to come.

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Granville T. Woods                      By: Keith Robinson

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Granville T. Woods                      By: Keith Robinson

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Granville T. Woods was an African American inventor known as the “Black Edison.” He was born April 23, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio to free African Americans. He was educated until he was 10, then was self taught and took many jobs. He made his own company which made and sold electrical devices. He invented 15 different appliances for electrical railways. His most important invention was the “induction telegraph” which allowed people to converse over telegraph wires. Thomas Edison challenged a lawsuit against him, but he defeated it, and turned down a partnership with Edison.

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Annie Easley was a mathematician, computer scientist, and rocket scientist. She was born in 1933, right at the start of the civil rights movement. She went to Xavier University and that helped her to gain voting rights. She helped other African-Americans in Alabama to study for the difficult literacy test they had to take to vote. She worked with NASA and was one of the only 4 African-American workers there out of the 2,500 other workers. She designed solar and wind energy projects in her 34 years working at NASA.

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  By: Charli Jones                                                            George F. Grant

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  By: Charli Jones                                                            George F. Grant

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George F. Grant filed the first U.S. patent for the first golf tee. He was also a dentist. During this time it was very unusual for a African-American to be playing golf, but he not only did that, he also contributed to it in a big way. The tee actually came about from dental technology. He spent months trying to figure out a system to hit the golf ball on, instead of sand. His invention was patended in December of 1899.

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Katherine Johnson is known for her amazing work as a mathematician while working for NASA. Katherine was one of the three other African American students to join West Virginia’s graduate schools. She had spent most of her career working on calculations for space missions. She is especially known for making arithmetic calculations for the project of Apollo Lunar Lander. Johnson had helped correspond the Apollo rocket with the moon's orbit and the numbers for the take off. Katherine Johnson is still living to the day at the age of 99.