Women you should know: Black History Month

Katherine Johnson became one of the first African American women to work as a NASA scientist. She became known as a "human computer". She is most famous for using her mathematics skills to figure out the paths for the spacecraft to go around Earth and land on the Moon. Her math played a huge part in sending astronauts to the Moon and back. Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White...

Donyale Luna is today’s Women Black History featured person Donyale Luna is the world's first black supermodel. In 1999 Luna became the first African American Woman to model for the cover of British Vogue. Her modeling career started in 1965 when Harper’s Bazaar drew a line sketch of Luna. Soon after Luna was signed with Richard Avedon, a known photographer of Harper’s. Later in lif...

Shirley Chisholm is today's Women Black History featured person Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm became the first African American Woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968. During that time she represented seven terms in New York's 12th congressional district for fourteen years. Chisholm was also the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination, and her accomplishme...

Coretta Scott King is today’s Women Black History featured person Coretta Scott King was a leader of the civil rights movement and an activist. She was also the wife of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta was born in Marion, Alabama on April 27, 1927. As a child, she enjoyed singing and playing the violin. After graduating in 1945, at Lincoln High School she was the school's ...