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First African American woman to be selected for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) astronaut training program and was the first African American woman to travel in space. WEBSITES: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_168.html https://www.space.com/17169-mae-jemison-biography.html https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jemison-Mae.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-Jemison VIDEOS:   Books and more………… African American lives [videorecording]  Astronaut Mae Jemison  Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world …

Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. In June 2016, Sotomayor made headlines when she wrote a scathing dissent  for Utah v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr., a case involving civil liberties in regards to preventing unlawful search and seizures protected by the U.S….

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful talk show hosts and multimedia publishers in American TV history. FUN FACTS: At 16 she landed a job that paid her to talk. A Nashville radio station, WVOL, hired Oprah to read the news on the air, which she says she loved. This gig helped Oprah get her big…

  Rosa Parks (1913–2005) American civil rights activist. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, indirectly led to some of the most significant civil rights legislation of American history. She sought to play down her role in the civil rights struggle but for her peaceful and dignified campaigning she became one…

  Arthur George (A.G.) Gaston played a little-noticed role in history. An African-American man born in a log cabin in Demopolis, Ala., in 1892, he defied the social climate of the times to become a business leader, and later, a behind-the-scenes political leader at a critical time in civil rights history.     VIDEOS:  …