Yvonne Clark
Yvonne Clark was a pioneer for African-American and women engineers. She
was the first woman at Howard University to get a Bachelor of Science in
mechanical engineering. Clark also made history at Vanderbilt
University, as she was the first woman to earn a master's degree in
Engineering Management.
Affectionately called "TSU's First Lady of Engineering," Clark taught at
Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN, for 55 years.
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was an American Mathematician whose calculations were
integral for the first crewed space flights from 1953 to 1988. She was
one of the first African-American women to work at NASA as a scientist.
In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, stating, "Katherine G. Johnson refused to be limited by
society's expectations of her gender and race while expanding the
boundaries of humanity's reach."