Richard Paul
This is a documentary about Black astronauts. It starts with with Ed Dwight, who wasn’t an astronaut, though plenty of people thought he was #BHM #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistory
https://youtu.be/I7jJ8jEh608
The telescope is in the Smithsonian. This is the display that was created around it. #BHM #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistory
The young woman sitting at the computer in the image above grew up to be the first Black woman ever to run a NASA science & engineering branch (Gloria Hullett-Smith). #BHM #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistory
This is a picture of Morgan Watson in 2009 at the Smithsonian with Astronauts Mae Jemison and Leland Melvin; and Julius Montgomery, the first black man hired at Cape Canaveral (also me at the podium). #BHM #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #blackhistorymonth #BlackHistory
book_dragonWe have lost a great woman, whose span of years encompassed a profound segment of American history.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black history, women’s stories and overlooked voices in the Bay Area and beyond.