As shown in the film Hidden Figures, African American women worked in this field at Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA.

This eight-time Grammy nominee opened the Oscars in 2020.

Mae Jamison was the first African American woman to be trained in this profession.

Tony Dungee was the first African American head coach to win this title.

Lewis Howard Latimer served in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War and later worked with both Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison on the development of this.

Dorothy Vaughan was the first black supervisor at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor to this agency.

This actress won an Oscar for her role in The Help and is the first black actress to receive two consecutive Academy Award nominations in back-to-back years.

Physicist Dr. Shirley Jackson was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from this university.

This iconic heavyweight champion lit the torch for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

This woman developed hair products for black women and became the first black female self-made millionaire.

Mary Jackson working as an engineer in the Supersonic Pressure Tunnel asked the city to attend all-white engineering classes to ultimately becoming the first African American female engineer of this type.

This actress won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal in Hidden Figures and was the first black actress to win the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

Sarah E. Goode was the first African American woman to receive this in 1885 for her invention of the folding cabinet bed.

Bill Russell was the first Black American player in this professional sports league.

Physician Dr. Charles R. Drew played a pivotal role in developing the first large-scale one of these repositories during World War II, and later resigned from the American Red Cross due to the armed forces’ policy requiring separation of donations to these repositories along racial lines.

According to NASA, this mathematician’s “calculations proved as critical to the success of the Apollo Moon landing program and the start of the Space Shuttle program, as they did to those first steps on the country’s journey into space.” In 2015, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; in 2017, NASA renamed the Hampton, VA computational research facility after her; and in 2019, she received the Congressional Gold Medal. She passed away earlier this week at the age of 101.

Hidden Figures garnered three nominations at this awards show.

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American poet to win this prize.

Althea Gibson was the first Black tennis player to get invited to this tournament.

Dr. Patricia Bath was the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent, and her most well-known invention, the Laserphaco Probe, harnessed laser technology to create a less painful and more precise treatment of this condition.

This is the computer language that Dorothy Vaughan taught herself and other women to help program the computer to calculate flight paths.

The movie is based on a non-fictional book by this author.

Mississippi, the last state to ratify the 13th Amendment, officially abolished slavery in this year.

She is the most decorated gymnast in world championship history.

Nathan "Nearest" Green, an emancipated slave and master distiller mentored and taught this individual how to make whiskey.