Kenneth and Mamie received their bachelor and masters from Howard University. Mamie did her master thesis on, “The Development of Consciousness of Self in Negro Pre-School Children, She did this because of her work with the all black nursery school and her future husband wrote the thesis with her and added the research on self-identification in Black children and she had two children during this time, Katie in 1940 and Hilton in 1943, all the she completing her degree (Butler, 2009). Kenneth went to Columbia University in 1937 and Mamie in 1938 graduated magna cu laude. Mamie worked at a law office for a while. That is where she saw firsthand how segregation had a damaging effect.
African-American women are not an exception to other people who have goals, and Dr. Ramona H. Edelin is a great example. Edelin was born in Los Angeles on September 4, 1945. At an early age, her family relocated to Georgia, where she attended elementary school, and then graduated from Stockbridge High School in Massachusetts in 1963. She then attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee earning her BA (Bachelor of Arts). Ramona later resumed her education, completing a Ph.D. at Boston University in 1981, an outstanding accomplishment.
It was her mother that inspired Annie Jump Cannon to study astronomy. Astronomy is a natural science that studies the objects in space. It also studies the things that happen in space. This study is also linked with physics, chemistry, evolution, meteorology, and the development and formation of the universe. The study of astronomy is one of the oldest studies of science.
Her parents highly valued education and wanted her to receive the same education that boys receive. She was the third born of ten children. Throughout her life she attended private schools, such as North Grammar school, where her father was the first principle. He taught her everything she needed and wanted to know about astronomy first hand using his very own telescope. Marie Mitchell
Mae Jemison 1 Mae Carol Jemison  Mae Carol Jemison Mary Taylor Jones College of Jacksonville Mae Jemison 2 Mae Carol Jemison was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison, a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher of English and Math. [1] When Jemison was 3 years old, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois to take advantage of better educational opportunities. By the time she entered kindergarten in 1961 she knew how to read, and she had already decided to be a scientist. “ As a child growing up, Jemison learned
Maxine Smith: A Civil Rights Pioneer from Tennessee By: Dr. Donna Artrip Maxine Smith is a name that should be recognized and honored by all humanity (especially Memphians) for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. She was born in 1929 and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School at the young age of 15. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in French. However, she was denied admission to the Memphis State University graduate program in 1957 due to her race. Despite the obstacles, Maxine Smith was determined to change the laws and policies of segregation and discrimination.
She began studying for her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She wanted more control over her music, so she opened her own production and publishing company. She also began producing and composing television and music scores. During this time, not fully focused on recording an album it was another two years until she came out with another album. In 1977 she released Blue Lights in the Basement, which was one of the top selling albums of the year.
These three elements set the foundation for a sustainable culture.” Honesty is what brings Leaders together, but it’s the distance they are willing to go that sets them apart. IV. Martha Stwart A. Martha Stewart, was born Martha Kostyra on August 3, 1941 (age 72), in Jersey City, New Jersey. 1.Academy of Achievement (2010) “A straight-A student, she won a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and worked as a model to help pay expenses. She began her college career intending to study chemistry, but later switched to art, European history and architectural history.” Although some like to remember Stewart because of the convictions in 2004 of Insider Trading, Martha shows that can she take responsibility for her own actions and she is willing to use it as a Learning experience.
Rosa Parks Although she was known as Rosa Parks, she was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a child she lived with her grandparents and developed strong roots by going to church with them. During Rosa's childhood she was influenced by the Jim Crow Laws. Rosa was home-schooled until the age of eleven, and then she attended a segregated public school which was known as the Industrial School For Girls in Montgomery, Alabama. Earning her high school degree in 1933, she then went on to get a secondary education.
Lillian D. Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A firm believer in nonviolence, she helped lead the first women peace march in 1914.She was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing. Lillian Wald was from a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, (her father was an ophthalmic merchant). In 1878, she moved with her family to Rochester, New York where she attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; upon graduation she tried to enter Vassar College but was repudiated, as the school thought she was too young at 16. In 1889, she joined New York Hospital's School