Born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, Earnest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator who pioneered many areas on the physiology of development, including fertilization, experimental parthenogenesis, hydration, cell division, dehydration in living cells and ultraviolet carcinogenic radiation effects on cells. Just's legacy of accomplishments followed him long after his death, on October 27,
Mildred Delores Jeter was born in Central Point, Virginia on June 22, 1939. Mildred’s parents were Theoliver Jeter and Musiel Byrd Jeter. Mildred Loving was of African American, European and Native American origin, specifically from the Cherokee and Rappahannock tribes. Mildred 's family had lived in the area around Central Point, Virginia for a long time, where blacks and whites mixed freely with little racial conflict even at the peak of the Jim Crow era.
William Harvey Carney, Junior was an African American Union Sergeant in the Civil War, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military honor. He received the medal for his bravery as a member as the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry.
Herman Russell Branson was an African American Physicist and Chemist who was born August 14, 1914. He is from Pocahontas Virginia. He was the son of a coal minor. His family moved to Washington, D.C during his adolescent years. Thanks to his mother's encouragement to read he became Valedictorian of his high school. During his adult hood he met his wife Corolynne Gray whom he married and they had two children a son named Herman and A daughter name Corolynne Gertrude.
Was the Japanese internment an act of justice or an act of cruel severity. The main motivation for Japanese internment was concerns about national security threats.
Edward E. Davis, also known as Earl Davis, was born in early 1916. He is currently 97 years old, and is at least the oldest living World War II veteran in Smyth County, Virginia. At age twenty five, on September 8, 1941, Davis was drafted into the United States Army and was sent for basic training in South Carolina. He was one of five children, all boys, and they all served in the United States military. His official title in the United States Army was to be a carrier, a mortar gunner and ammunition carrier. Davis was married to Mary Irene Tolliver Davis, who unfortunately passed away on March 29, 2005 at 82 years old.
Willie Hobbs, Moore was born in 1934, she was the very first African American woman to earn a PH.D in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1972, under the direction of Samuel Krimm. After she received her doctorate she continued research on specral proteins, while in Michigan Moore worked with Datamax Corp. Moore has also held positions in engineering in which she was responsible for theoretical
Lansford Hastings’s shortcut sounded enticing and the Donner brothers planned to use it to save time traveling to California; however, the short cut was nonexistent and the advice cost the Donner’s both time and human lives. In April of 1846, the Donners packed up and headed west joining other pioneers on the westward trek to California. At first, the trail was smooth for the great wagon train. People gathered around the campfire at night to sing and tell stories, open-air church services were held, women formed sewing circles, and children had numerous new friends with whom to entertain themselves; however, times became treacherous as food became scarce. Well into their journey, the Donners met a scraggly looking man by the name of James
Ernest Everett Just, born August 14, 1884 in Charleston, South Carolina passed away in Washington, D.C. on October 27, 1941. Ernest Just was an African –American biologist, scientist, and educator. He spent most of his adult life collecting, classifying, and caring for his marine specimens. He is a Dartmouth alumnus. He has faced racial discrimination all through his life that caused him many opportunities.
Ames was born in Dedham, Massachusetts on April 9, 1758, and died in the same town on July 4, 1808. He came from a prestigious family, his father being a physician, and his mother the daughter of one of the most well-respected farmers in the area. Fishers father died when he was a boy, and although his mother was left to raise him as well as his four older siblings, he was never neglected. As his life progressed he proved to grow up in a very good manner. He was an eager student and a quick leaner. Also, he was not one to seek trouble and stayed away from it as
Have ever thought about what it would be like to be the first one in your family to attended college? Well let me tell you about Jamie St. Clair who was the mother of 8 children. She fulfilled that dream on May 3 2016. First in her family to receive a college degree in Nursing. However, this is not the first of her
In 1915, Just became the first recipient of the NAACP 's Spingarn Medal, which is a prestigious award given to a person of African descent who had “performed the foremost service to his race.” Just was elected to the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists. In 1930, he became “the first American to be invited to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany, where several Nobel Prize winners conducted research.” He gave a detailed account of his experiments in scientific journals in three countries including Germany, Italy, and France. He became “the world’s leading expert on fertilization of the egg, the beginning of every life in the animal world,” and earned a new title as the “scientist’s scientist,” given to him by his colleagues. He made fairly significant breakthroughs in specific areas of science that would include the role of environmental factors in development; “he investigated the effect of a number of variables – dilute or concentrated sea water, ultraviolet irradiation, temperature, hydration or dehydration— on embryo development.” He observed “the ‘wave of negativity’ that sweeps over the egg cell at the onset of fertilization envelope separation, preventing fertilization by more than one spermatozoon” and “correctly reasoned that it was this wave, not the physical separation of the envelope, that is
One early settler in Rhode Island was Roger Williams (a founder of Rhode Island) who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was banished because he spoke out against the Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the rule of the Court, he questioned the right of authorities to punish religious bickering, and the right to take away Indians land. Another founder was Anne Hutchinson, who was also banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for religious reasons. Rhode Island officially became a state in 1790 on May 29.
Elwyn Brooks White was born on July 11, 1899. As a child, White did not enjoy school much. He preferred to be outside like any other young boy (Meet E. B. White, 6). When he grew older, he
America was never known to be the home of famous scientists, but that didn’t discourage citizens from investigating and studying the world. In January 1901, Percival Lowell, founder of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, announces that his examination of Mars reveals canals (science and technology). For the American people, his findings were extraordinary and astonishing. Lowell paved a way for future American scientists, by believing in himself and his desire to learn. Coming from the ‘baby’ nation, much wasn’t expected of its citizens in terms of knowledge and technology. Consequently, Lowell was the first person to imply that life existed beyond Earth. According to his examinations he found that, “Intelligent beings must have built
Ernest Just is known for his studies in Marine Biology. Ernest Just was born on August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina, he was born African-American. He was born to Charles Frazier and Mary Mathews Just. As a child Ernest Just was known for being a very intelligent child, he went to Kimball Academy hall until he enrolled at Dartmouth College. Later on during his university years he found that he had an interest for biology, after reading a paper about fertilization and egg development. In 1907 Earnest Just became a sole magna cum laude (which is a person with a 4.0 grade average.) Also, 1909 Ernest Just worked at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts. In 1924 Earnest Just wrote a book called “General Cytology” with