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Out of the Shadows

Caroline Herschel Frieda Robscheit-Robbins
The first professional astronomer, Herschel was born in Germany in Born in Germany in 1893, she moved to the United States as a child.
1750. Her brother, William Herschel, was also an astronomer. Together She studied diseases with scientist George Whipple. Together they
they created the first map of the Milky Way galaxy. Herschel lived discovered a cure for anemia, an illness marked by a lack of red blood
much of her life in her brother’s shadow. She made many important cells. Whipple was awarded a Nobel Prize for this in 1934. He did not
discoveries of her own, including finding eight comets. acknowledge Robscheit-Robbins.

Emily Warren Roebling Mamie Phipps Clark
She was born in New York in She was the first African
1843. Her husband oversaw American woman to receive
construction of the Brooklyn a doctorate from Columbia
Bridge. In 1872, he became University in 1943. Clark
deathly ill. Roebling took over. and her husband were
She was engineer, messenger, psychologists. They proved
and secretary. When the that separating children by
bridge opened in 1883, race damaged their minds
Roebling was the first person and self-worth. This was
to walk across it important evidence in the
1954 Brown v. Board of
Education case heard
before the Supreme
Court. This case Mamie Phipps
Emily Warren ended segregation in Clark with her
Roebling. schools. husband circa

1945.

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