People, Places, & Inventions

Math/Science

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden - NASA Mathematicians

Emmitt J. McHenry who created the internet addressing system (".com", ".edu", ".gov", ".net",etc.)

Jesse Russell pioneer in wireless communications, ie. cellphones, cell towers Bell Laboratories

George Washington Carver, a chemist famous for finding 300 ways to use the peanut, including peanut butter

Dr. Herbert Smitherman - Crest Toothpaste, Crush soda drinks, Bounce Fabric softeners

Sara Good invented the cabinet folding bed...hideaway bed. Some call them Murphy beds

Lonny Johnson - NASA Aerospace engineer who also created the Super Soaker

Rulers/Business Owners

Amanitore - Nubian Queen who successfully fought off Roman advances in Africa

Alexandro de Medici - Shakespeare based his Othello character on him

Queen Charlotte - wife of King George I. Many places are named after her

Madame C. J. Walker - first self-made African American millionaire

Writers/Musicians

Phillis Wheatley - first female African American published Poet died 1794

Alexandre Pushkin - writer

Alexandre Dumas - writer

John Blanke Trumpeter to the Tudors. Arrived in England with Queen Catherine of Argons. Not enslaved as record show he was paid by King Henry VII and VIII, image depicted on woven textile from 1511: Westminster Tournament Roll]

Joseph Boulogne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges - Mozart's contemporary/ex-roommate, musical rival and top European swordsman. Some scholars have shown that Mozart plagiarized some of Joseph's music.

George-Agustus Polgreen Bridgewater - violin prodigy with a serious connection to Beethoven's racism.