Are You Familiar with These African American Pioneers?

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• In 1950, which chemist was voted Chicago's Man of the Year by readers of the Chicago Sun-Times?

  • John G. Mintor

  • Sorrell Westper

  • Percy Julian

  • Bartell Penner

• Which surgeon was an expert on keeping human blood preserved for transfusions?

  • Charles Richard Drew

  • Harris M. Colgate

  • Rogers M. Quintin

  • Norman Cullion

• Who was acknowledged as being among the first African American physicists to concentrate his research on crystallography?

  • James G. Surtees

  • Herman Russell Branson

  • Herbert A. Manning

  • Robert Pelmall

• Who did a lot of the work at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory in Virginia that helped make the GPS?

  • Patricia Bath

  • Katherine Johnson

  • Valerie Thomas

  • Gladys West

• Who was the first person who was known to have set foot on the North Pole?

  • Nathaniel J. Moore

  • Bart Cubbins, Jr.

  • Paulson Quintain

  • Matthew Alexander Henson

• Which African American mathematician and inventor took involved in the planning of the District of Columbia as a surveyor?

  • Ernest Everett Just

  • Louis Temple

  • R.A. Butler

  • Benjamin Banneker

• In 1917, who was the founder of Poro College, the nation's first cosmetology school conducted by an African American?

  • Annie Turnbo Pope Malone

  • Sarah Thomas Winfield

  • Katherine Johnson

  • Claretta Farmer

• Who helped Roy Cohn perform the first kidney transplant with non-identical twins in the United States in 1961?

  • Pernell K. Martins

  • Samuel L. Kountz

  • William Bunting

  • Walter Durnott

• Which African American woman invented the foldable "cabinet bed" that earned her the first U.S. patent?

  • Millicent Parsons Smith

  • Molly Carruthers

  • Sarah Elizabeth Jacobs Goode

  • Priscilla Grand Miller

• Who was the first person to design and patent a folding bicycle frame?

  • Emmit G. Latta

  • Parnell G. Mather

  • Douglas V. Jensen

  • Absalom Jones

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