The 2016 book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, and the subsequent film by the same name released later that year, introduced the world to three remarkable women, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, all mathematicians for NASA who in the early 1960s helped put the first U.S. astronauts in space. There are hundreds of other little known pioneers in mathematics and other STEM fields who are now profiled on BlackPast. Our goal is the end their obscurity. Many of those little-known women and men are listed below in their respective fields. Learn about their lives and accomplishments in their profiles. There are far more individuals who only await volunteers to write their profiles. Please help bring their stories to the general public by writing about them for BlackPast. If you are interested please contact us at volunteer@blackpast.org.

- Science
- Agronomy
- Anatomy
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Biology
- Botany
- Chemistry
- Environmental Studies
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Meteorology
- Medical Research
- Microbiology
- Nutrition
- Oceanography
- Physics
- Plant Physiology
- Zoology
- Technology
- Computer Science
- Graphic Design
- Inventions
- Video Game Design
- Engineering
- General
- Aerospace
- Architectural
- Chemical
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Graphics
- Electrical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Landscape Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Naval Engineering
- Nuclear Engineering
- Mathematics
- General Mathematics
- Statistics
Explore these tabs to find all the amazing blacks in the STEM fields.
William Jacob Knox, Jr., 1904-1995
Angie Lena Turner King, 1905-2004
Thomas Nelson Baker, Jr., 1906-1977
Lawrence Howland Knox. 1906-1966
Nathaniel Olgesby Calloway, 1907-1979
Harold Bethuel Evans, 1907-1995
George Sherman Carter, 1911-1998
Moddie Daniel Taylor,1912-1976
James Ellis Lu Valle, 1912-1993
Edwin Roberts Russell, 1913-1996
Lloyd Albert Quarterman, 1918-1982
Samuel Proctor Massie, 1919-2005
Ralph Alexander Gardner, 1922-
James Andrew Harris, 1932-2000
George Franklin Grant, 1847-1910
Solomon Carter Fuller, 1872-1953
William Harry Barnes, 1887-1945
Louis Tompkins Wright, 1891-1952
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, 1898-1980
William Montague Cobb, 1904-1990
Frederick D. Stubbs, 1906-1947
Helen Octavia Dickens, 1909-2001
LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., 1930-2019
Explore all the amazing inventors in the Black Inventors and Inventions page.
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, 1890-1980
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, 1910–2008
Sylvanus Alexander Tyler, 1914-1986
Marjorie Lee Browne, 1914–1979
Katherine Goble Johnson, 1918-
Mary Winston Jackson, 1921–2005
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, 1927-1985
Charles Bernard Bell, Jr., 1928-2010
Vivienne Malone-Mayes, 1932-1995
The video below is provided by Base 11, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) workforce and entrepreneur development company headquartered in Irvine, California that seeks to empower 100,000+ students and early career adults to pursue STEM careers or become STEM entrepreneurs. The video specifically discusses the Next Frontier Conference & Expo which will take place virtually on October 6-7, 2021. There, participants will join corporations, foundations, academic institutions and students who share a common interest in our goal of building up the next STEM generation. To be notified when registration for the conference opens, sign up at https://www.base11.com/contact-us