Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn an M.D., earned while the Civil War raged, and the first Black person in the country to write a medical book, a popular guide with a preventive approach
Nearly 100 years ago a young astronomer named Cecilia Payne changed the way we see the stars in the sky because she was able to look into their burning heart and see something no one else ever had