NASA has redesignated its Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia, as the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility, in honor of the West Virginia native and NASA “hidden figure” February 2019.
Read more "Katherine Johnson"Charlene Carruthers is the leader of the Black Youth Project 100, a Chicago-based organization made up of queer and cis gender students and activists who work to end expand rights for women and the LGBT community, in 2013.
Read more "Charlene Carruthers"Selma Burke was an artist best known for her sculpture of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945 which inspired the profile found on a dime.
Read more "Selma Burke"May Edward Chinn was the first black woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926 and the first black woman to intern at Harlem Hospital.
Read more "May Edward Chinn"Unita Blackwell born in 1933 was the first black woman to become a mayor in Mississippi in 1976.
Read more "Unita Blackwell"Ella Hill Hutch was the first black woman elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
Read more "Ella Hill Hutch"Mary Kenner invented the sanitary belt which was not patented until thirty years later in 1956 because she was a black woman. She held four other patents including the tissue holder, held with her sister.
Read more "Mary Kenner"Lucy Hicks Anderson born in 1886, died in 1954, an activist, chef, and socialite, one of the early pioneers as a black transgender woman.
Read more "Lucy Hicks Anderson"Lisa Daniels is the Executive Director of Unsung Heroes Living History Project which collects and preserves stories of blacks in the military.
Read more "Lisa Daniels"Natalie Devora is an activist and author of Black Girl White Skin: A Life in Stories.
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