Benjamin Banneker

My name is Benjamin Banneker, and I taught myself astronomy and mathematics. I am best known for _______.

• First African-American to teach in a pre-dominantly white college

• Constructing a clock that struck hourly

• First African-American to attend John Hopkins University

• First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics

Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes is best known as the _______?

• First African-American to teach in a pre-dominantly white college

• Constructing a clock that struck hourly

• First African-American to attend John Hopkins University

• First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics

My name is Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. I am an African American mathematician and physicist, but I am best known for _____________ and having a PhD in mathematics ____________.

• at the age of 19.

• being the first African-American to use the Substitution Method

• being the first African-American to attend John Hopkins University

• entering University at the age of 13

She taught math before working at NASA. Much of her 40-year career at NASA was spent researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She is in the book Hidden Figures.

• Katherine Johnson

• Christine Darden

• Mary Jackson

• Mae Jemison

I worked on the first American flight into space, and also on the Apollo 13 flight. My name is ___________, and in 2017, they made a movie about me and my friends Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, African-American women working at NASA. The movie was called __________ .

• Katherine Johnson

• "Women in Space"

• "Hidden Figures"

• Mae Jemison

I was the first African American to be admitted to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, but it was not an easy task. I had to work extremely hard to get there. Do you know who I am? (Hint, I share a name with someone you know)

• Torrey Craig

• Phil Lesh

• David Blackwell.

Who was David Harold Blackwell?

• The first African-American to teach in a pre-dominantly white college

• The only black American inducted into National Academy of Sciences

• The first African-American to attend Johns Hopkins University.

• First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics