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April 11 - BlackFacts Black History Minute
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BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 11.
Birthday of chemist Percy Julian.
He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols.
He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the son of a railway mail clerk and the grandson of enslaved people.
Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The college accepted few African-American students.
He graduated in 1920 as a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian.
He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted from any field.
In 1953, he established Julian Laboratories, a successful enterprise that he sold for more than $2 million in 1961.
He later formed Julian Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization.
He was active as a fund-raiser for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for their project to sue to enforce civil rights legislation.
Learn black history, teach black history at blackfacts.com
152 episodes
Manage episode 325201857 series 2885711
BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 11.
Birthday of chemist Percy Julian.
He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols.
He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the son of a railway mail clerk and the grandson of enslaved people.
Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The college accepted few African-American students.
He graduated in 1920 as a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian.
He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted from any field.
In 1953, he established Julian Laboratories, a successful enterprise that he sold for more than $2 million in 1961.
He later formed Julian Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization.
He was active as a fund-raiser for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for their project to sue to enforce civil rights legislation.
Learn black history, teach black history at blackfacts.com
152 episodes
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