CONTENTS Alpha 1 PART 1 IN THE VANGUARD 5 Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler 9 GENERAL PRACTITIONER 14 Rebecca J. Cole GENERAL PRACTITIONER 16 Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson GENERAL PRACTITIONER INSTITUTION BUILDER Eliza Anna Grier OBSTETRICIAN GYNECOLOGIST 18 22 Mary Eliza Mahoney NURSE Sarah E. Goode INVENTOR Josephine Silone Yates 23 24 SCIENCE EDUCATOR Ida Gray Nelson Rollins 26 DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY Alice Augusta Ball 28 PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST Anna Louise James PHARMACIST 32 PART 2 RIDING THE WAVE 37 Willa Beatrice Brown AVIATOR 41
Ruth Ella Moore BACTERIOLOGIST Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes MATHEMATICIAN Alfreda Johnson Webb DOCTOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE Jane Hinton DOCTOR OF VETERINARY MEDICINE Georgia Louise Harris Brown ARCHITECT Angie Lena Turner King MATHEMATICIAN CHEMIST Myra Adele Logan MEDICAL DOCTOR SURGEON RESEARCHER Flemmie Kittrell HOME ECONOMIST Carolyn Beatrice Parker PHYSICIST Marie Maynard Daly BIOCHEMIST Jane Cooke Wright ONCOLOGIST Annie Easley MATHEMATICIAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST Yvonne Young Clark MECHANICAL ENGINEER Angella Dorothea Ferguson PEDIATRICIAN SICKLE CELL ANEMIA RESEARCHER Jessie Isabelle Price VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGIST 46 47 48 48 50 53 56 58 62 64 68 71 75 79 82
83 Bessie Blount NURSE PHYSICAL THERAPIST INVENTOR FORENSIC SCIENTIST PART 3 ONWARD 87 91 Georgia Mae Dunston GENETICIST Joan Murrell Owens 95 MARINE BIOLOGIST June Bacon Bercey 98 METEOROLOGIST 101 Patricia Suzanne Cowings PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIST INVENTOR 103 Mamie Parker BIOLOGIST ENVIRONMENTALIST 107 Shirley Ann Jackson PHYSICIST 112 Patricia E. Bath OPHTHALMOLOGIST LASER SCIENTIST INVENTOR 117 Donna Auguste ELECTRICAL ENGINEER COMPUTER SCIENTIST DATA SCIENTIST ENTREPRENEUR Pamela McCauley 121 INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER Treena Livingston Arinzeh 126 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER Ayanna Howard 128 ROBOTICIST
