African American Firsts
African American Women in Science
African American men in Science
African American Authors
African American Engineers +Architects
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Who is Robert L Johnson.
What is the first African American Billionaire?
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Who is Mae Jemenson ?
Who was the first African American woman to go to space ?
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Who is Emmett Chapelle ?
What is the African American who made contributions to Medicine ?
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Who is Alice Walker
What is the woman who wrote the novel The Color Purple for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Who is James West
What is an American inventor and acoustician. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.
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Who is Kenny Washington?
What is the first African American to play in the NFL.
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Who is Shirley Ann Jackson
What is the first African American women to earn a doctorate at MIT
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Who is Robert Carruthers ?
What is an African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist.
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Who is Walter Mosley ?
What is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.
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Who is Lilia Abron
What is an entrepreneur and chemical engineer. In 1972, Abron became the first African American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering.
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Who is Tommie Smith or John Carlos
What is the first African American to make the podium at the Olympics ?
300
Valarie Thomas
What is the first African American woman to invent the Illusion Transmitter ?
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Who is George Alcorn Jr.
What is an American physicist and inventor who worked primarily for IBM and NASA. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Who is Terry McMillan
What is An African who’s work is characterized by relatable female protagonists.
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Who is Lonnie Johnson
What is an American inventor and engineer who holds more than 80 patents. Johnson is best known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys every year since its release.
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Who is Peter Westbrook
What is the first African American to go to the Olympics in fencing ?
400
Who is Reatha Clark King
What is the African American woman to be the former Vice President of the General Mills Corporation ? Oh
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Who is Arlie Petters
What is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of Mathematics and a Professor Physics and Economics at Duke University.
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Who is Colson Whitehead
What is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel The Intuitionist, and The Underground Railroad ?
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Who id John Slaughter
What is an American electrical engineer and former college president who served as the first African-American director of the National Science Foundation.
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Who is Earl Lloyd
What is the first African American to play in the nba ?
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Who is Evelyn Granville
What is the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University.
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Who is Joseph Graves
What is an American professor and the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
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Who is Eric Dickey
What is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life.
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Who is Carol Wilson
What is an electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park.
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