During the next few

weeks you will be

choosing a famous
African American
person to research
about. You will create
a presentation about
this person.
Click on this
folder in our
homeroom
course to find
the assignment
and a list of
famous African
Americans to
research!
 Things to include:
1) Persons name
2) When they born and
when they passed
3) Where they lived
4) Their family life
5) Where they went to
college
Also include pictures or 6) The jobs they had
videos! Get creative! 7) Important
accomplishments
8) Interesting facts
 Title:
Mae C.. Jemison

Name:
By, Viola M.
 Mae C. Jemison
Early life

-Born in 1956, in Alabama. -Mae has 2 siblings, and is

the youngest.
-At the age of 3, she moved
to Chicago. -Her parents were a
elementary school teacher
and her father was a
maintenance supervisor, she
had a fascination with all
things science from an early
age.
 Mae C. Jemison
Jobs & Education

- Not only did she -She went to,Morgan

become an astronaut, Park High school, then
but she is also a went to Stanford
physician, a Peace University School of
Corps volunteer, a Engineering and finally
teacher, and founder and went to Weill Cornell
president of two Medical College, to earn
technology companies. her doctorate.
 Mae C. Jemison
Accomplishments & Interesting facts

-She wrote an autobiography, -Jemison is a trained dancer --

called Find Where the Wind she built a dance studio in her
Goes: home and even brought a poster
Moments From My Life. from her dance school on her
space mission.
-She also was the first black
woman astronaut. -She began college at Stanford
University to study chemical
engineering when she was only
16 years old.