1955 —- Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson — Begins collecting live bumblees and observing their reactions to changes in diet and light exposure.

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
FREng 
(born August 5, 1946)

Honors and distinctions

She is an active voice in numerous committees 
Jackson continues to be involved in politics and public policy. In 2008 she became the University Vice Chairman of the US Council on Competitiveness, a non-for profit group based in Washington, DC.

 In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Jackson to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a 20-member advisory group dedicated to public policy.^[43]
 
She was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2012.^[44]
 
She received a Candace Award for Technology from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1982.^[45]

John Henry Michael Thompson — The inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director

John Henry Michael “JT” Thompson 

(b. June 15, 1959)

He is the inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director and a former Chief Scientist at Macromedia. 

Thompson is a former professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and instructor at Drexel University.

Thompson is committed to teaching and motivating successive scions of tech developers. He is a graduate of MIT and the Art Student League of New York.

Thank You, GOD For Waking Up Our Nation — Prayer By Ethiopian Immigrant

Who is Araminta Ross?

Harriet Tubman

Born Araminta Ross

 1822–1913

 

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family.

Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or “Moses“, as she was called) “never lost a passenger”.^[3] 

 After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work.

Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. 

When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy.

The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves. 

After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents.

She was active in the women’s suffrage movement until illness overtook her, and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier.

After her death in 1913, she became an icon of courage and freedom.

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Barbara Charline Jordan — First Black U.S. Congresswoman from Texas

(February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996)

Barbara Jordan was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Barbara was best known for her eloquent opening statement at the House Judiciary Committee hearings during the impeachment process against Richard Nixon.

Barbara Jordan is also known as the first African-American as well as the first woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention.

Jordan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. She was also a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1978 to 1980. Barbara Jordan was the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.