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Percy discovered more affordable methods of synthesizing medicine from plants. Percy was born in Alabama in the 1900s. He fought for education and got valedictorian. He went to Harvard for his fellowship and master's in organic chemistry. He then went to Austria for his Ph.D. in chemistry in medical plants. In his work, he discovered how to synthesize progesterone, cortisone, and hydrocortisone from plants, increasing access to care for all.

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Charles Drew developed medicine and the understanding of blood plasma, saving thousands of lives in WWII. Born June 3, 1904, he grew up in Washington. He was talented in sports allowing him to get into the University of Massachusetts. He had the spark in medicine from a teacher and so he worked for his MD which he got in 1933. He started researching shock-saving treatments and blood plasma. He develop a way to synthesize plasma which was used to obtain blood drives to the WWII Allies soliders.

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Gladys West is an African American woman responsible for developing GPS. Born in 1930 in Virginia, she used education as a way of getting out of the rural town she lived in. She used a scholarship at a local college to pursue a degree in mathematics. In her work, she analyzed data from satellites. With this analysis, she led to the future of GPS technology.

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Ernest Wilkins Jr. was an important physicist in the development of nuclear physics and the Manhattan Project. Wilkins was born in 1923. He quickly advanced through education and entered the University of Chicago by age 13. He went on to get a master's in Mathematics by age 19 and continued into his Ph.D. in Mathematics completing it by 1942. He determined the power of neutrons in nuclear which further the growth of sustainable energy. Moreover, he worked on optical devices like telescopes and help fight for nuclear war prevention.

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https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/j-ernest-wilkins-jr/
https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/history/files/AIP-Hobbs-Jackson-Handout.pdf
https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_banneker_1.html
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_CDarden.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43812053
https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/african-americans-in-sciences/charles-richard-drew.html
https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/percy-lavon-julian

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Christine Darden was born September 10, 1942, in North Carolina. She always had an interest in the properties of machines growing up. She got a degree in mathematical education from Hampton Institute in 1962. She taught high schoolers for some time before heading to Virginia State to earn a master's degree in aerosol physics. She then when on to get a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University. After this, she studied sonic booms and help develop the technology responsible for sonic jets.

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Benjamin Banneker was born on Nov 9, 1731, in Maryland. He self-taught himself since at the time education for African Americans was highly limited.  He used to track the stars and map their patterns. In 1752, He made a wooden clock that was unseen in America at the time. He is most well known for accurately predicting the 1789 solar eclipse which contradicted many other astronomers' predictions. He also calculated the orbits of ellipses and fought for equality.

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Wille Hobbs Moore was the first African American Woman to gain a Ph.D. in physics. Born May 23, 1936, she grew up in New Jersey. She was a first-generation college student. She went to the University of Michigan and obtained a bachelor, master, and a Ph.D. in spectroscopy by age 39. She went on to work as an executive at Ford Motor Company and educate many in STEM.