When Alan Emtage worked as a systems administrator for the School of Computer Science at McGill University, he decided to create a program that would automate the time-consuming process of finding software for teachers and students. He named the program _________________?

Herman Chinery-Hesse is responsible for bootstrapping ____________________in 1991 with no start-up capital and only his personal computer.

Mark Dean also responsible for developing _____________?

From 1983 to 1992, Guion Bluford made four trips to space, working as a mission specialist on the ___________________?

Kimberly Bryant decided to create________________________ , a nonprofit that empowers girls from underrepresented communities by introducing them to programming.

Julian Manly Earls’ wrote ______________ first health physics guides.

Angela Benton co-founded ____________________, to highlight the exceptional innovation and talent “of Blacks in the technology and new media industries.”

____________________________________ became one of the most highly regarded botanists of his day.

Mae Jemison boarded the_________________ and was thrust into orbit, becoming the first African American woman in space

Frank Greene was also hailed as one of the first black _____________________, breaking the color barrier in local industry.

Aprille Ericsson-Jackson worked on projects related to ___________________________________?

_______________________developed an operation to that helped babies with Tetralogy of Fallot or blue baby syndrome by increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood and reducing constriction?

_______________________________ innovative findings helped start a conversation within the medical community about how a person’s diet can affect heart health and the circulatory system?

________________________ founded Afara Websystems, a company that created multi-core SPARC-based computer processors for data centers?

______________________________was an inventor and draftsman best known for his contributions to the patenting of the light bulb and the telephone?

_______________________ was the inventor of a life-saving device, mechanical traffic signals, and more had to fight for recognition?

This person invented the "Super Soaker"

Which year was Benjamin Banneker's Almanack and Ephemeris published?

The first African American inventor identified on a patent in the United States?

Was the first African American to become a faculty member of a predominantly white college?

He invented the fire extinguisher?

He patented a screw press for tobacco.

The architect became the first African American student to attend Clemson University in South Carolina in 1963 He ran twice for the United States Senate against Jesse Helms.

In 1997 Stater became a member of President Clinton's cabinet, he was appointed the Secretary of Transportation

An African American software engineer who patented in 1994 a technique and programmable encryption device capable of executing a variety of classified and commercial cryptographic public key and signature algorithms.

Directed the IBM Research Lab in Austin, Texas, which produced the first 1000 MHz computer chip, the world's fastest in 1998.

She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1991 from the University of California at Berkeley.

This person invented the golf tee in 1899?

A cotten-picking machine was invented by him.

This person invented an apparatus to destroy insects dangerous to plants and trees without injuring the plants themselves, for which he was granted a patent in 1899.

Patented Paper Bag producing machines.

He was the first African American heavyweight boxing champion who also invented a wrench tool for which he was issued a patent in 1922.

Was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in agronomy. He taught at North Carolina State from 1928 through 1937.

His work has been commended by NASA and the President's Office of Science and Technology, he patented a rocket engine pump feed system in 1961.

He was a commissioned physician with the Union Army during the American Civil War and was the first black to be admitted to a United states medical society

He was born a slave and later purchased his own freedom. He was the first African American who authored a technical paper presented to a medical organization in the United States.

He was the first African American faculty member of the Howard University Medical School, as well as the first African American faculty member of any medical school.

In 1883, she wrote the first medical text book, A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts that was written by an African American woman in the United States.

She was the first African American to graduate from The Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She later established a practice and a center for the aid of impoverished women and children.

He founded the Louisville National Medical College.

He was the first African American to receive a M.D. from Meharry Medical College in 1877.

She was the first African American to receive a M.D. from Wayne State University school of Medicine.

The first woman to practice medicine in the State of Mississippi.

The first drugstore operated by an African American in Petersburg, VA was opened in 1899 by whom?

The first African American physician to establish a medical practice in Durham, NC.

He was the first African American to pass the California Board of Medical Examiners.

He was the first African American to head a civilian hospital when he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of Washington's Freedman's Hospital in 1892.

She was both the first African American and the first woman physician to be licensed by the Virginia State Board in 1893.

He confronted members of the John Birch Society in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, when they spoke before a group of physicians. His efforts to stand up for racial desegregation in medical practice went beyond speaking out; he argued that a new hospital planned for the Weldon North Carolina area should be integrated. The hospital did not completely desegregate until 1972.

He was the first African American Dentist to practice in Weldon, NC.

He wrote a 200 page doctoral thesis "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Preservation," a pioneer in blood preservation in 1940.

Was one of the first two African American women to earn a M.D. from Meharry Medical College.

He operated the first African American drugstore in Petersburg, Virginia that was opened in 1899.

He was the first African American to pass the California Board of Medical Examiners.

He was a pioneer in cardiac surgery. On July 9, 1893, he performed the first successful heart surgery, closing stab wounds of the heart and percicardium. His patient made a full recovery.

He was the first African American to earn a M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

He was the first African American psychiatrist.

Harlem Hospital, in New York City, had an all-white medical staff until an African American surgeon ______________________________ (1891-1952) was appointed to the staff in 1919. This person became director of surgeon in 1942 and president of the Medical

Board of Harlem Hospital in 1947, both first for African Americans.

This person was the first African American employed as an analytical chemist and technician in the surgery and pathology department at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

This person was the first African American physician awarded the Harmon Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medicine in 1929 and was the first African American certified by the American Board of Dermatology and Syphiliology in 1935

This person received a M.D. from Howard University Medical School (Washington, D.C.) in 1914, was the first African American physician to become a certified Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1931.

This person became the first African American woman physician to practice in the state of Maryland in 1933.

________________________ was one of the first two African

Americans admitted to the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1939.

The first African American to become a commissioned officer in the U. S. Navy was ____________________(1918-1972) in 1942. Received a M.D. from Harvard University in 1945. The first of an African American to appear in the journal Radiology.

The first school of veterinary medicine located at an African American educational institution was established in 1945 at Tuskegee Institute by __________________________(1901-1988)

The first African American certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was _______________________ (1896-19__) in 1947.

The antibiotic aeromycin was first used to treat humans in 1948 by the African-American physician______________________________ to introduce the intradermal method of smallpox vaccination in 1918.

_________________________ who received a B.A. from Texas College and a M.S. from Tufts College, was the first African American woman to earn a M.D. from Harvard Medical

school in 1951.

The first African American physician trained in the United States as a surgical oncologist was _____________________, who finished a cancer fellowship at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in 1951.

The first African American woman surgeon to practice in the South, in 1954, was ______________________.

___________________________ was the first African

American woman to receive a M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia when she received the degree in 1955.

_________________________ was the first African American chief resident on the staff of the Pittsburgh Veterans Administration Hospital in 1959.

________________________was the first African American physician appointed assistant dean at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1960.

____________________________, internationally known orthopedic specialist, was the first African American to receive a M.D. from Stanford University College of Medicine in 1961.

He founded the Howard University College of Medicine's Trauma Center.

This first African American submarine doctor in the 66 year history of the U.S. Submarine Service was __________________________when commissioned in 1966 and was assigned to the submarine George C. Marshal out of Newport News the same year.

An outstanding contributor to the field of cancer therapy, _______________________________ was the first African American to serve as associate dean of a major medical school, New York Medical College.

The first African American associate dean for students at Yale University School of Medicine was _____________________________?

This Professor of clinical psychiatry specialized in the emotional and psychological problems of African Americans and developed the "aggression-rage" theory. He has published numerous scholarly articles and texts.

This psychologist has appeared on several television programs offering her expertise and insights on male/female relationships, gender interactions in the workplace, mate selection, toxic relationships and matrimonial harmony. She and her husband co-authored The Endangered Black Family; Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: The Passage, The Miseducation of The Black Child, Crisis in Black Sexual Politics and How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working).

_____________________, a national leader of the quality of life movement and child medical care specialist, was the first African American woman to hold an administrative position with the American Medical Association.

________________________ was the only African American among the one hundred organizers of the American College of Surgeons, as well as the first African American to be selected as a fellow in 1913.

Harlem Hospital, in New York City, had an all-white medical staff until the African American surgeon _________________________was appointed to the staff in 1919.

When ___________________________________ worked as a systems administrator for the School of Computer Science at McGill University, he decided to create a program that would automate the time-consuming process of finding software for teachers and students. He named the program “Archie,” as a derivative of the word “archive” (without the “v”)

Few people have a resume as impressive as _________________________________ . She was the first woman to receive a doctorate from MIT in any field, studied subatomic particles during the 1970s, was appointed by Bill Clinton to serve as Chairman of the U.S.

Once known as the "Bill Gates of Ghana,"___________________________________ is responsible for bootstrapping theSOFTtribe in 1991 with no start-up capital and only his personal computer.

_______________________________ joined IBM in 1980 as an engineer while he worked to receive his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. He quickly became a major player at IBM, eventually holding three of the company’s nine original patents.

He made four trips to space, working as a mission specialist on the Challenger and then on the Discovery. In 1997, he was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.

____________________________was the focal point of the recently released, critically-acclaimed film Hidden Figures, where her work, alongside that of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, as a "human computer," powered the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit.

Over the course of _______________________career, he’s racked up quite a few “firsts.” Over the course of four decades at NASA, he became NASA’s first black section head, first black office chief, first black division chief, and first black deputy director—not to mention he wrote NASA’s first health physics guides.

_____________________________ took on an entirely new challenge in 2011: creating NewME, a platform that helps minority and women entrepreneurs create successful businesses. The online platform has helped entrepreneurs raise more than $20+MM in venture capital funding.

Though he was born a slave, ___________________________became one of the most highly regarded botanists of his day. He completed his botanical studies degree at Iowa State Agricultural College, and was then hired to run Tuskegee Institute’s agricultural department.

In 1992,___________________ boarded the Endeavour and was thrust into orbit, becoming the first African American woman in space

As one of the “first black technologists,” ___________________________expanded the notion of who could innovate in the tech space. While serving in the U.S. Air Force as an Electronics Officer, Green developed high-performance computers for the NSA. He then began working for Fairchild Semiconductor, where he helped develop the patented memory chip design.

__________________________________was always a gifted student with an affinity for STEM subjects. She received her Bachelor of Science from MIT, where she worked on projects related to manned space flight missions.

In 1941, Alfred Blalock became the chief surgeon at Johns Hopkins University and he brought ________________________ along with him. Together, they developed an operation to that helped babies with Tetralogy of Fallot or blue baby syndrome by increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood and reducing constriction.

_______________________________________ is a pioneer of the multi-core processor. In 2000, he founded Afara Websystems, a company that created multi-core SPARC-based computer processors for data centers.

Who made the first clock in the American colonies?

Who was the first African American Physician?

____________________________________ became the first African American to patent an invention when, in 1821, he was issued a patent for a dry cleaning process known as "dry scouring."

This doctor is currently employed at Halifax Regional Hospital and attended Howard University?

This lady is the Director for The Center For Solar Education located in Halifax County?

In 1989 ___________________________ founded the Black Environmental Science Trust to focus attention on the special environmental problems experienced by minority communities, such as exposure to lead, exhaust fumes, and contaminated drinking water, and to increase the number of African American scientist in environmental fields?

She was born in 1933 in the tiny rural town of Schaal, Arkansas, where a visit to a doctor was a rare occurrence. But, she grew up to be a pediatrician, the director of the Arkansas Health Department, and, in 1993, the first African American Surgeon General of the United States.

This aeronautical engineer helped develop the F-105 and F-84 jet fighters and played a major role in the design of the long-range P-47N, a bomber escort.

This person was the first African American member of the National Academy of Sciences. He did fundamental work in game theory, Bayesian inference, and information theory, and cowrote the classic book, Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions.

In 1848 he invented a toggle harpoon that made it more difficult for the whales to get away. He neglected to patent his invention and never benefited from its profits.

Academic, Social activist, and the first African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics.

A poor woman with a middle-school education, made one of the greatest medical contributions ever. Her cells, taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy, became the first immortal human cell line—the cells reproduce infinitely in a lab. Her cells were named "HeLa Cells"