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Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was the subject of false claims (made by others, not by Jackson herself) that she invented caller ID and call waiting .
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
First African-American woman (Shirley A. Ajayi) was given a part for 6 months on a TV show as a psychic in 1986 in Chicago, Illinois. Shirley had to audition with other psychics to get the part. She then was taught marketing at the John Hancock center by her boss who ran the TV show. For safety reasons she was renamed as "Aura!".
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
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Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
Regina King plays Shirley Chisholm in Netflix's biopic focusing on her groundbreaking 1972 presidential run
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.