The Union Transportation Company was chartered on August 29, 1905, in response to Tennessee’s newly-imposed streetcar segregation law (July 1905) and a black boycott of the city’s main streetcar transportation system, the Nashville Transit Company. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
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Thursday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
The Wyoming Black Fourteen were African American members of the 1969 University of Wyoming (UW) football team who protested playing a game with Brigham Young University (BYU) because of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s ban on black males holding the priesthood in the church and other racial restrictions. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Monday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Good morning POU'ers , since this is Black History Month this week's open thread's will highlight some new black history facts and people. Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. She grew up in southern … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Another Set of Black History Factoids
Saturday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA
Dr. Christine Darden (born September 10, 1942) is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted her 40-year career in aerodynamics to researching sonic booms at NASA. She was the first African-American woman at NASA's Langley Research Center to be promoted into senior executive service. Darden is one of several women scientists to be featured … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA
Wednesday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (born August 26, 1918) is an African-American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician. She made fundamental contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. Known for accuracy in computerized celestial navigation, her technical leadership work at NASA … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA