The first African-American woman to earn an MIT doctorate, Shirley Ann Jackson ’68, PhD ’73, worked to help the Institute begin to diversify. She then applied her mix of vision and pragmatism ...

On August 5, 1946, Shirley Ann Jackson was born into the civil rights movement against segregation that had consistently challenged the moral compass of the United States. Discriminatory laws ...

Alexander Miles, Charles Richard Drew, Marie Van Brittan Brown, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Mark E. Dean are just a few notable African-American inventors. We live in a world with blood banks ...