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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.
It is named for Mae Jemison, a native of nearby Decatur, Alabama who was the first African-American female astronaut. [ 2 ] The school is built on the same campus as McNair Junior High School, which is named for the late Ronald McNair , the second African-American astronaut in space, who was killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger .
Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221.; The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.
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On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
BOA Editions, Ltd. is an American independent, non-profit literary publishing company located in Rochester, New York, founded in 1976 by the late poet, editor and translator, A. Poulin, Jr., [1] and publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Awakening, the U.S. title of Les Mal Partis, a 1950 novel by Sébastien Japrisot Awakening , a young adult novel by Robin Wasserman in the Chasing Yesterday series Music