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America's "First" Clock

Banneker built the first wooden clocking America after borrowing a watch from an acquaintance. ​

America's "First" Clock

The Virginia Calculator

Though Thomas Fuller was considered “illiterate” because he could not read and write in English

The Virginia Calculator

Early Black Statistician

Blackwell was the seventh Black American to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics and made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics​.

Early Black Statistician

Pioneer in Ethnomathematics

Dr. Gloria Ford Gilmer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, was a trailblazing African American mathematician.

Pioneer in Ethnomathematics

Black Woman Helps NASA Win The Space Race

Known as a “Human-computer” hired by NASA, Katherine Johnson helped put the first man on the moon by calculating the accurate trajectory of the Apollo mission to and back from the moon. Her role in the space race was immortalized by the Hollywood movie Hidden Figures​.

Black Woman Helps NASA Win The Space Race

The Black Woman Who Helped Create The GPS

Gladys West is a mathematician who made pioneering contributions to GPS technology through her work in developing mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth and the satellite geodesy models.​

The Black Woman Who Helped Create The GPS

First Black Professor

After an appointment at New York Central College to teach math, Reason became the first Black professor and the first Black professor with white students in the United States​.

First Black Professor

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