AAHB Pioneers

He created a coin-operated arcade game called Demolition Derby that incorporated a Microprocessor while working in his garage on his own time.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

He led the team that developed the first cartridge-based home video game console system in the mid-1970s which revolutionized pre-programmed gamed systems.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

He became chief engineer of the new video game division for Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View which launched the Fairchild Channel F console in 1976; the first gaming system that supported multiple game cartridges.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

He founded one of the oldest and largest African American religious

congregations in America, the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

The minister who worked with Absalom Jones to form the Free African

Society, the first African American organization in the United States.

• DR. REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER, PHYSICIAN

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

He helped launch the Negro Convention movement to abolish slavery.

• DR. REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER, PHYSICIAN

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

1. He founded one of the oldest and largest African American religious

congregations in America, the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

2. The minister who worked with Absalom Jones to form the Free African

Society, the first African American organization in the United States.

3. He helped launch the Negro Convention movement to abolish slavery.

• DR. REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER, PHYSICIAN

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

1. He led the team that developed the first cartridge-based home video game console system in

the mid-1970s which revolutionized pre-programmed gamed systems.

2. He created a coin-operated arcade game called Demolition Derby that incorporated a

Microprocessor while working in his garage on his own time.

3. He became chief engineer of the new video game division for Fairchild Semiconductor in

Mountain View which launched the Fairchild Channel F console in 1976; the first

gaming system that supported multiple game cartridges.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, WORLD WAR II MILITARY PILOTS

1. First African American woman to earn a medical degree.

2. As a doctor, she cared for freed slaves and impoverished children.

3. She published the Book of Medical Disclosures.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• DR. REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER, PHYSICIAN

First African American woman to earn a medical degree.

• GERALD LAWSON, ENGINEER AND VIDEO GAME PIONEER

• RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE A.M.E CHURCH

• CHARLES BOLDEN, JR., ASTRONAUT, MAJOR GENERAL

• DR. REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER, PHYSICIAN