Black Women in STEM
She completed the NASA calculations necessary for several space missions including the 1969 moon landing.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
She invented hair care products for black women.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
In 2020 she became the first woman, the first woman of color, the first Black woman, and the first South Asian woman elected to this office.
Who is Vice President Kamala Harris?
She refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955; a key event that helped kick off the Civil Rights Movement and the Montogomery Bus Boycott.
The only legal consumer products that can kill people when used as intended.
What are Tobacco Products?
NASA's first African American Female engineer.
Who is Mary Jackson?
These sisters were the inventors of the walker and the toilet tissue holder.
Who are Mary and Mildred Davidson?
The writer of "Why Does the Caged Bird Sing" who won the Medal of Presidential Freedom in 2010.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The first black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The number of black people who die each year due to tobacco related illness.
What is 45,000?
The second African American woman to graduate with a PhD in physics in the U.S. and received the National Medal of Science in 2015 during the presidency of Barack Obama.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson?
The inventor of the hairweave.
Who is Christina Jenkins?
She is a Four-time Olympic gold medal winner, and ranked No. 1 in the world singles eight times between 2002 and 2017.
Who is Serena Williams?
Used her platform as a journalist to lead an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's and later co-founded the NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
What is cigarette smoke?
The first African American woman to become a physician.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
She invented voice over internet protocol (VoIP) networks.
Who was Marian Croak?
The first African American female billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Who is Nina Simone?
Secondhand smoke contributes to this many deaths annually.
What is 41,000?
The first black woman to become Surgeon General of the United States.
Who is Dr. Minnie Joycelyn Elders?
The inventor of the Laserphaco Probe
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
She refused to let her disability stop her and became the first American women to win three gold medals in Track and Field during the 1960 summer Olympic games in Rome.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
She was the premiere behind-the-scenes organizer, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) headed by Martin Luther King, Jr., and an inspiring force behind the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Who is Ella Baker?
The tobacco industry used to go to predominantly black neighborhoods to do this.
What is hand out samples?