FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 21
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
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CENTS
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Special Edition
BLACK HISTORY
PIONEERS IN STEM
Fred Gregory, first African American
to command a space shuttle mission,
Discovery 1989
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, cardiologist,
performed the first successful open heart
surgery, 1893
Dr. Mae C. Jemison, first African American
woman in space, Endeavour 1992
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, first
African American woman to earn a PhD in
mathematics, 1943
Ronald Erwin McNair, second African
American, first Bahá’í astronaut in space,
Challenger 1984
Dr. Warren Washington (R), Portland-born
atmospheric scientist, awarded National
Medal of Science by President Obama, 2010
Mary Winston Jackson, NASA’s first Black
female engineer, 1958
Kimberly Bryant, electrical engineer
‘biotechnology’, founded Black Girls Code
Melba Roy, headed the group of NASA
mathematicians who tracked the Echo
satellites, 1960
Lonnie George Johnson, inventor and
engineer, holds more than 80 patents