Samuel Wilbert Tucker (June 18, 1913 – October 19, 1990) was an American lawyer and a cooperating attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a founding partner in the Richmond, Virginia firm of Hill, Tucker and Marsh, he is best remembered for one of his several civil rights cases before the Supreme Court of the United States: Green … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Civil Rights Attorneys
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Friday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Christopher Dean "Chris" Myers is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. In 1998, Myers won a Caldecott Honor for his illustrations in Harlem. The following year, he wrote and illustrated Black Cat, a book that received a Coretta Scott King Award (2000).In addition to writing and illustrating his own stories, Myers often illustrates books written by his father … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Friday Open Thread: Black Women Game Changers in the STEM Fields
ACG artist and computer animator Lisette Titre has contributed to some of EA’s highest profile games, including Tiger Woods Golf for Nintendo’s Wii, The Simpsons, and Dante’s Inferno. As a character modeler, Titre takes data from scanned images of characters or real-life individuals and reworks the information to build a 3-D digital sculpture. After the character’s digital … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Women Game Changers in the STEM Fields
Friday Open Thread: Making History-Black Men and Women in Swimming
Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won two Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event. He is the first swimmer of African American … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Making History-Black Men and Women in Swimming
Friday Open Thread: African-American Mathematicians
I hope everyone is having a fantastic and safe New Year!!! Elbert Frank Cox (December 5, 1895–November 28, 1969) was an American mathematician who became the first black person in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. He spent most of his life as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was known as an excellent teacher. During his life, he … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-American Mathematicians