Tag: Mae Jemison

black-to-the-bones:

This Black History Month, let’s celebrate the first African-American woman who traveled in space.

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Let’s celebrate black people, who made history! This is so important to know that some of us didn’t give up and were strong enough to achieve something great like this. These stories are inspirational , but we don’t see them in our history books. Even though she was told women can’t go into space, she never stopped believing in her dreams. 

“As a little girl, I was excited, and people kept trying to explain to me why women couldn’t go into space,” Jemison said, according to the university’s student newspaper, The Plainsman. “I always thought they were full of it.”

She’s the role model for every black kid, who has big dreams! She is a living proof everything’s possible!

#BlackHistoryMonth

simpleescapism:

flavorcountry:

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.

Source: flavorcountry