Do You Know Your Black History?

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Do You Know Your Black History?

• By Dianne Pidgeon

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Who Was the First African American Woman
Astronaut?
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Mae Jemison

• Physician
• Scientist
• Astronaut
• Educator

NASA
NASA
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Who Discovered Fire Fighting Chemical Foam That
Puts Out Gasoline Fires and a Treatment for
Glaucoma?
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Percy Julian

• DePauw University
• Harvard University

• Born April 11, 1899
• Montgomery Alabama

New York Public Library Schaumburg Center for
Research in Black Culture
Created an inexpensive drug to treat glaucoma
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Who Made 300 Products From Peanuts?
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George Washington Carver
Plastics
Soap
300 products from peanuts
Paint
Lotion
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Who Invented the Globe Supporter for Electric
Lamps?
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Lewis Howard Latimer
Black Scientist A to Z
Inventor and Engineer
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Works Cited List
Jemison, Mae. NASA. African-American History
Culture. Fact on File, Inc., 1991. 30 May
2003. www.factsonfile.com. Lewis Howard
Latimer. What You Need To Know About
Inventors, 2003. 30 May 2003.
http//inventors.about.com Microsoft Office
Clip Art and Media. Microsoft Corporation. 30
May 2003. http//officeMicrosoft.com. Sullivan,
Ortha Richard. African American Inventors. New
York John Wiley Sons, Inc., 1998.