Celebrating Black History: 16 Black Leaders in Tech

Who was known as the 'Black Edison' and held nearly 60 patents?

• Granville Woods

• Katherine Johnson

• Otis Boykin

• Thomas Edison

Katherine Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 by President ____. A) Kennedy B) Obama C) Bush D) Clinton.

• Kennedy

• Obama

• Bush

• Clinton

Which inventor held 26 patents and worked with the Majestic Radio and TV Corporation?

• Granville Woods

• Katherine Johnson

• Otis Boykin

• Thomas Edison

Who became the second African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1949?

• Melba Roy Mouton

• Evelyn Boyd Granville

• Roy Clay Sr.

• Katherine Johnson

Melba Roy Mouton worked as a 'human computer' at NASA and eventually became the Head of Computer Programming. She received an Apollo Achievement Award and an ________ Performance Award.

• Exceptional

• Outstanding

• Excellent

• Superior

Who was Annie J Easley and what was her most famous work?

• A Black NASA scientist known for her work on the Centaur rocket

• A computer programmer who developed the first personal computer

• A mathematician who invented the internet

• A physicist who discovered the theory of relativity.

Frank Greene is often hailed as one of the 'first Black technologists.' He developed high-speed semiconductor computer-memory systems in the 1960s at ________.

• NASA

• Fairchild Semiconductor R&D Labs

• IBM

• Microsoft

Who was one of the first African-American women to earn a doctorate from MIT?

• Valerie Thomas

• Clarence "Skip" Ellis

• Dr. Shirley Jackson

• Katherine Johnson

Valerie Thomas worked at NASA from 1964 to 1995 and was known for developing the first satellite to send images from space. What is the name of this satellite?

• Hubble

• Landsat

• Voyager

• Galileo

Clarence "Skip" Ellis was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. He worked on the development of which supercomputer?

• ENIAC

• ILLIAC IV

• Cray-1

• IBM Blue Gene