by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 30, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Annie Easley 1933 -2011 Two weeks after reading an article on twin sisters working as human computers, Annie Easley began a career in 1955 as a ‘human computer’, doing computations for researchers. This involved analyzing problems and doing calculations by hand. In...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 23, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Ellen Jackson 1935–2005 Ellen Swepson Jackson was an American educator and activist best known for founding Operation Exodus in 1965. Jackson got involved because her five children attended an overcrowded school of predominantly Black students who were not...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 23, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Jean Blackwell Hutson 1914–1998 Jean Blackwell Hutson was an African American librarian, archivist, curator, and finally chief of the New York Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1948 to 1980. She also taught classes in Black Studies at the City...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 19, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Paintings
Lucy Craft Laney 1853–1933 Born into slavery in 1854, Lucy Craft Laney was educated by her parents as slaves were not allowed to attend school. Before she became a teenager she could not only read and write English, but also Latin. However, when she attended Atlanta...
by caroljacobsen.org | Jan 13, 2024 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Information, Paintings
Annie Easley 1933 -2011 Two weeks after reading an article on twins working as human computers, Easley began a career in 1955 as a “human computer,” doing computations for researchers. This involved analyzing problems and doing calculations by hand. In the face of...
