Bessie Virginia Blount was born on November 24, 1914, in Hickory, Virginia. During World War II as a part of her work working with wounded soldiers,, Blount invented a device to help amputees feed themselves, the apparatus. She invented the electric feeding device in 1951, a feeding tube that delivered one mouth full of food at a time. Blount device was not accepted by the American Veteran’s Administration, so Blount sold it to the French Government. Bessie Blount was once a physical therapist for Theodore Edison son of famed inventor Thomas Edison. Blount and Edison became very close friends while in his home Blount invented the disposable cardboard emesis basin, this invention was also rejected by the American Veterans Administration and…
In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first official African-American women professional nurse in America. She dominated a predominantly white women field, and flourished within the field. Mahoney had an extremely outstanding career during her time as a nurse, and alongside that, she also had done an insurmountable amount of charity work and has paved a new wave of organizations with her contributions. She excelled within all aspects of her career, and is a fine example of black excellence.…
Josephine Baker was a French vedette, singer and entertainer. Her career was centered around Europe and France. Josephine Baker was an extraordinary dancer and was most well-known for doing funny faces while dancing. She first started out as a comedian performing in blackface, however, throughout the years her talent carried her to stardom. She was extremely popular and widely acclaimed in Europe. However, racism in prevented her from being accepted in the United States until 1973.…
Jane Dee Hull was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on August 8, 1935. Governor Hull is married to Dr. Terry Hull. Dr. Hull practiced medicine in Pheonix for 32 wears and now works as a consultant. Governor Hull and Dr. Hull have four children and eight grandchildren. Governor Hull received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Kansas and also did postgraduate work in political science and economics at Arizona State University. She is a graduate of the Josephson Ethics Institute.…
When she entered high-school in 1963, she was one of the first blacks to enter Jackson High School in Miami. While in high-school she would enter local science fairs. She also volunteered at the first black owned medical laboratory. At the laboratory she learned to use technical equipment. She graduated in 1967 and was twelfth in her class of 350 people. After high-school she entered college at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to enter the university. Although she spent most of her time with pre-med student, she received the Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for molecular genetics scholarship. She graduated from Lincoln with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology.…
August 18th, 1886. In Clearfield Taylor County, Iowa Mabel Lee was brought into this world. She was the daughter of David Alexander and Jennie Aikman Lee. As a child Mabel lee was underweight, small and often ill. Besides that fact she always enjoyed participating in physical activities and games. She graduated from Centerville in 1904. She attended Coe college in Cedar Rapids mainly because Coe had a women's basketball team. She majored in psychology and minored in biology. She also took anatomy and physiology. Her senior year she taught gymnastics to girls at Marion High school. Mabel wanted to teach physical education, so after she graduated from Coe in 1908 she enrolled in the Boston normal school of gymnastics. Oregon Agricultural…
She goes on to say, “I followed the Gemini, the Mercury, and the Apollo programs, I had books about the, I always assumed I would go into space” (2). Therefore, Jemison began taking graduate engineering classes and applied to NASA for admission of the astronaut program. In 1987, Jemison and fifteen astronaut candidates were accepted to the NASA program; and she completed her training in 1988 (Jemison 2). Aboard the shuttle, Endeavor, in 1992, Jemison was the mission specialist on flight, and at the age of thirty- six, Dr. Mae C. Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in to space. In March 1993, Jemison founded the Jemison Group Inc., her private company that aims to “research, develop, and implement advanced technologies suited to the social, political, cultural, and economic context of the individual, especially for the developing world” (Jemison 2). One group project her team has conducted is a satellite based telecommunications system to improve health in West Africa; and Jemison taught environmental studies at Dartmouth College from 1995 to 2002 and since 2015 she is a professor at Cornell University (Jemison…
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named Jay Gatsby, who…
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was the oldest of three children and the only girl of a very close-knit family. Her father, Christian Webb Welty, was an Ohio native who worked for an insurance company. Her mother, Mary Chestina Welty, had been a schoolteacher in West Virginia. Welty’s mother, being a schoolteacher, loved to read and influenced Welty to read at a young age. In her biography, Welty tells about her earliest memories of her parents reading to her and to each other at night. She was always surrounded by books and was always reading. Her love of reading led her to graduate high school and further her education, which most girls during this time…
His daughter continued her father’s legacy by majoring in chemistry. Many years later, she started a Queens College scholarship fund in his honor to assist minority students majoring in chemistry or physics. She studied at Columbia university she majored in Chemistry, after that she earned her Ph.D., When Marie graduated she did nothing but studied the human body. I was proud of her because she was the first woman to go to college most women weren’t allowed at a lot of colleges. What got her in science was influenced by her father, who had attended Cornell University with intentions of becoming a chemist, but had been unable to complete his education due to a lack of funds. His daughter continued her father’s legacy by majoring in chemistry. Many years later, she started a Queens College scholarship fund in his honor to assist minority students majoring in chemistry or physics. But she had some problems trying to get in school but she solved that problem by keep trying to accomplish her dream. She started teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she continued research on arteries and the effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs in April, 1947. That was good because she affected the world because she inspires other women to get their degrees. It also inspired me…
Helen Adams Keller was born into a wealthy family on the summer of June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia Alabama. Helen was a very intelligent girl who was interested in everything around her; at least she was able to enjoy the beauty of nature through vision and the beauty of speech and hearing for the first few months of her life. Helen 's life dramatically changed when she was struck by acute congestion of the stomach and brain, similar to meningitis. This illness caused a severe fever that left Helen paralyzed of her vision, speech and hearing, at only 19 months of age- Helen had become deaf, blind, and mute for the rest of her life. "When Helen Keller was…
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved” – said Helen Keller (http://www.msa.state.mn.us/sharedservices/doubleimpact/helenkellerquotes.asp). Helen Keller did a lot of things that stimulated people’s spirit worldwide. The most noticeable thing she accomplished, even though she was a deaf-blind person, she was always persistent and moved on to have a successful life. She devoted her life to help people around the world, and reach her dreams. Helen Keller proved the world that even with disabilities, we still can always reach…
Helen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little but together we can do so much.” Helen Keller was blind and deaf and was not expected to go far in life. Her parents hired a teacher to help Helen and her name was Annie Sullivan. Helen Keller was the first blind and deaf women to ever finish college and get her masters. Helen learned to work through her disabilities by working hard and learning with Annie Sullivan (“2Helen”).…
Helen Keller was born like any ordinary baby, without any abnormalities. She was born June of 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. It was a sleepy and very southern town. The beginning of her life was very normal. She came, she saw and she conquered. At the age of 2 she came down with a fever as a result of an acute congestion of the stomach and brain. After that, no part of life would ever be simple again. The doctor said she might not recover, although she did. Except as that sickness went away in came another, she became blind. Her mother was giving her baby, Helen, a bath one day, when she happened to pass a hand in front of Helen's eyes and there was no response. Her eyelids…
Mae C. Jamison was born in on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. She was the youngest child to Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Green. Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity and her mother was a elementary teacher. When Mae Jemison was three years old when her parents moved to Chicago, Illinois so there kids can get a better education. At a very young age Mae Jemison expressed an interest in science and astronomy. In elementary she was asked what she wanted to be she said she wanted to be a scientist.…