historic things

Former NASA Astronaut Joan Higginbotham was born in chicago on August 3, 1964 . She obtained Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a  1987   Master of Management degree from Florida Institute.  Her career with NASA began at Kennedy Space Center,  where she was payload electrical engineer… Read more

NASA Astronaut Stephanie Wilson was born in 1966 in Boston, MA. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Harvard (1988 )  and Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas (1992). Her  graduate research focused on control and modeling of large, flexible space structures. Selected by NASA in… Read more

About seven years before the birth of Phillis Wheatley, Lucy Terry penned the earliest known work of literature by an African-American (and her only poem). She was born in Africa in 1724. Kidnapped as an infant, she was sold into slavery in around 1730. Upon her marriage, in 1756, to a free black named Obijah… Read more

Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, was born in 1833 in Richmond, VA. She graduated in 1864 with her MD (after working as a nurse for several years) from the New England Female Medical College in Boston and worked extensively with the Freedmen’s Bureau… Read more