This former NASA physicist and mathematician performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This inspiring individual was South Africa's first black Head of State.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This woman is credited with being the first African American author.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
This Jamaican-American artist is considered the "King of Calypso".
Who is Harry Belafonte?
iConnect was launched in this year.
What is 2017?
This chemist and inventor's patents made universal telephone service possible. He became the first Black engineer to be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
Who is Walter Lincoln Hawkins?
This hero served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This person wrote the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
After Nigeria, this country has the largest number of Black people worldwide.
What is Brazil?
Eaton University Relations and iConnect partner in this Strategic Initiative to impact our pipeline of Black engineers and attract talent to Eaton.
What is National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)?
This inventor prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
In 1972, she became the first woman candidate for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Born in 1931, she was the first African American female author to win the Nobel Prize.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This singer, born in the Barbados, broke the Guinness World Record for digital single sales in 2012.
Who is Rihanna?
These are the 4 KSIs of iConnect.
What are Recruit, Retain, Develop, and Advance?
This is the nickname for the cells extracted from Henrietta Lacks, that have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons without human experimentation.
What are HeLa cells?
This place was home to the "Black Wall Street", one of the most prosperous and thriving Black communities in American history.
Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Black French novelist, Alexandre Dumas, wrote this famous adventure set in 17th century France.
What is The Three Musketeers?
This teacher lost her job due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked "Whites Only".
Who is Ida B. Wells?
ACT is an acronym for this statement of iConnect's purpose.
What is Advance Culture Together?
Born on May 17th, 1893, Black inventor Frederick McKinley Jones invented this commonly used household item still in use today.
What is the refrigerator?
The Voting Rights Act was passed in this year, overturning efforts by state legislatures to disenfranchise African-American voters.
What is 1965?
This author is known for his social and political views and published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass.
What is The North Star?
There are this many iConnect Hubs.
What is 5?