Shirley Ann Jackson | Biography, Activism, & Facts

Shirley Ann Jackson, American scientist and educator and the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jackson helped develop technologies that made communication faster and easier and was an advocate for minority representation in academia,

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