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George Robert Carruthers was an inventor, physicist, engineer, and space scientist. He perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. They used the camera to record the Earth's outermost atmosphere.

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Shirley Jackson (born 1946) Jackson, the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT, is responsible for monumental telecommunications research that led to the invention of products such as the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber optic cables, and caller ID.

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Madam C.J. Walker, the first African American woman self-made millionaire, created hair products geared toward Black hair after developing a scalp disorder that caused her to lose most of her hair. She developed the "Walker Method" using her own formula for pomade, brushes and heated combs.

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Percy Julian was a chemist and pioneer of medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroids and birth control pills. He was born in Montgomery, AL a grandson of slaves. He attended DePauw and was valedictorian of his class then attended Harvard where he completed a master’s degree in organic chemistry.

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Charles Young was the first black U.S. National Park Superintendent. Son of a former slave, he grew up in Ohio where he flourished in academics. The 3rd black student to graduate from West Point, Charles was appointed acting superintendent of Sequoia & General Grant national parks in 1903.

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Peter Humphries Clark was an American abolitionist and speaker. One of Ohio's most effective abolitionist writers and speakers, he was the first teacher engaged by the Cincinnati black public schools in 1849, and founder and principal of Ohio's first public high school for black students in 1866.

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Charity Adams Earley was the first black woman to become an officer in the WACs and was the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in WW2. She graduated with a double major in math and physics from Wilberforce then received an MA in psychology from Ohio State in 1946.

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BHM-James A. Parsons Jr. invented stainless steel. Parsons, born in Dayton, Ohio, attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After earning his BS in electrical engineering in 1922, he worked for Dayton’s Duriron as an analytical chemist. He became Duriron’s chief metallurgist and lab manager.

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I'm posting daily for Black History Month. I'm starting with my hometown and working my way out. Paul Laurence Dunbar, born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the first African American writers to achieve international recognition for his poetry and short stories written in black dialect.

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I'm just going to start posting my photos and see what happens. #birds

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