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Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
Mary Jemison was born to Thomas and Jane Jemison aboard the ship William and Mary in the fall of 1743, while en route from British Ireland (in today's Northern Ireland) to America. They landed in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and joined other Protestant Scots-Irish immigrants in heading west to settle on cheaper available lands in the ...
African American Lives 2 premiered in February 2008, again hosted by Gates. This second set of episodes traced the ancestry of performers Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner, Tom Joyner, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, theologian Peter Gomes, athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, poet Maya Angelou, Bliss Broyard (the daughter of writer Anatole Broyard) and publisher Linda Johnson Rice (the daughter of publisher John ...
Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966) [1] is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison.
Julio Jemison (born 1994), Bahamian footballer; Mae Jemison (born 1956), American astronaut, engineer and physician; Marty Jemison (born 1965), American cyclist; Mary Jemison (1743–1833), Scots-Irish American frontierswoman; Mike Jemison (born 1983), American football player; Robert Jemison Jr. (1802–1871), American politician and entrepreneur
Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West, a middle/high school in Baltimore, Maryland, is named in his honor (along with Charles Drew and Mae Jemison). On October 8, 2021, a building on the main campus of The Pennsylvania State University in its Innovation Park was named the Guion S. Bluford Jr. Building in his honor.
Mae Whitman is a mom! The actor announced she welcomed her first child in an Instagram post and revealed she named him after her "Parenthood" co-star. Mae Whitman welcomes 1st baby and names him ...
In 1992 Mae Jemison became the first woman of color in space. Susan Helms became the first woman on an ISS expedition crew on Expedition 2, lasting from March 2001 until August 2001. [30] Peggy Whitson became in 2007 the first woman to command the International Space Station, [33] and in October 2009 NASA's first female Chief of the Astronaut ...