Biography african-american scientists project

An expanded edition of the AANB continues online, with more than entries added since The Revised Edition includes significant updates and revisions of hundreds of entries, including that of Barack Obama, in recognition of his presidential campaign, election victory, and first term in office up to October, The enthusiasm of these students and the professionalism of their entries prompted the AANB, in conjunction with Oxford and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, to launch a broader outreach program to solicit entries from more than 40 high schools in and The expanded AANB has also allowed us to capture some of the less well known, but fascinating individuals in African American history.

Also included in the revised edition are the classics scholars Wiley Lane and Daniel Barclay Williams; Alberta Virginia Scott, the first black graduate of Radcliffe College; and Virginia Randolph, a pioneer of industrial and vocational education in the Progressive Era South. Among the more unusual biographies included here is that of Barney Hill, a post office worker who gained notoriety by claiming to have been abducted by extraterrestrial aliens in the s, while another postal worker, Homer Smith, is one of several entries on African Americans who migrated from the United States to seek a better life in the Soviet Union in the s.

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Smith would help modernize the Soviet postal system. New online entries for include John Caesar, who fled slavery with the British loyalists, but ended up as a convict and bushranger in the Australian penal colony; the opera singer, Caterina Jarboro, and the late actor James Avery, Uncle Phil in The Fresh Price of Bel-Air.

The AANB continues to solicit entries. In the series focused on the less heralded biographies of notable African Americans like William Shorey, a Pacific whaling captain; Gladys Bentley, a Harlem Renaissance stalwart and lesbian pioneer; and sisters Matilda and Roumania Peters, tennis champions of the Jim Crow era. The Hutchins Center is proud to partner with Enslaved.

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