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00:00Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised Banneker's almanacs.
00:11Although a fire on the day of Banneker's funeral destroyed many of his papers and belongings,
00:17one of his journals and several of his remaining artifacts survived.
00:22Banneker became sort of a folk hero after his death, leading to many accounts of his
00:27life being overly stretched or overly exaggerated of his greatness.
00:32Banneker's legend is still felt today through the names of parks, schools, and streets that
00:38commemorate him and his works.
00:42Chapter 8 Shirley Ann Jackson
00:47Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist born August 5, 1946.
00:52She was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
00:57She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts
01:01Institute of Technology, also known as MIT, in theoretical elementary particle physics,
01:10and the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field.
01:16She is the second African-American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.
01:21Her work while conducting scientific research for Bell Laboratories was extremely instrumental
01:27to the invention of the portable fax machine, the touch-tone telephone, solar cells, fiber
01:34optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting used currently in almost
01:41every cell phone today around the world.