1982-present Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri First African American principal dancer with American Ballet New York Times Bestselling Author As a child facing financial instability, sometimes living in a hotel room as one of six children her single mom worked many jobs to just feed them. At age 13 Copeland and her siblings visited a Boys and Girls Club where ballet teacher Cindy Bradley discovered her and encouraged her to pursue formal ballet training. Very shy and reserved

1964-present Birthplace: Oakland, California District Attorney, San Francisco, California Attorney General, State Of California. United States Senator - California Author 49th Vice President - United States of America Vice President Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California to immigrant parents. Her father came from Jamaica and her mother from India. Her parents exposed her to activism and civil rights demonstrations early on. When Harris was introduced to Supreme Court

Katherine Coleman Johnson 1918-2020 Birthplace: White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia Widowed mother of 3 in 1959 remarrying 3 years later Mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics and trajectories for NASA were critical to the success of the first US space flight, Apollo 11 . Author Katherine Johnson’s intelligence and skill with numbers was recognized when she was a child. She was attending high school at age 10, graduating from West Virginia State College with