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Black Pioneers You Should Know: Madam CJ Walker
Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam CJ Walker, is America's first female self-made millionaire. She grew up in poverty and by the age of 20 was a widowed woman bringing up a two year old daughter alone. To try to make money she took in laundry. Due to a scalp condition, Sarah began to lose her hair so she started experimenting with some of the laundry chemicals she has used, hoping to find a cure.
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Black Pioneers You Should Know: Dr. Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison seems to be one of those kind of cool people that you wish you could've met when you were younger. She is inspirational to me now as an adult, and I think as I child learning about her and her achievements may have led me down a different path, one which I thought was unattainable.
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Black Pioneers You Haven't Heard of: George Crum
Potato chips may have been around since the 1820s, but it is thanks to a chef named George Speck that they became popular in America. George worked in a famous restaurant, and he got his name 'Crum' because one of the wealthy diners in his restaurant could not remember George's last name.
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Johnny Appleseed – the Original Treehugger
September always means apple season here, and there is no greater icon of apple season than John Chapman, more familiarly known as Johnny Appleseed. Unlike the mythical Paul Bunyan, Johnny really did exist and made a contribution to America that we can all appreciate today. Read on to learn some facts about Johnny and grab some freebies! Who was Johnny? Johnny’s early life is actually pretty well documented. We know he was born in 1774 and grew up during the revolutionary war, where his father served in the Continental Army. Before Johnny was two his mother died and his father came home to look after him. He remarried and Johnny…
