One of my hobbies is history, and I've never found any information about great black sea captains and black voyages of exploration. Could you help me out with some?
Thanks for your assistance.
African-American Matthew A. Henson accompanied polar explorer Robert E. Peary on a U.S. expedition to the North Pole on April 6, 1909. In 2000, the National Geographic Society posthumously awarded Matthew Henson its highest honor—the Hubbard Medal. Henson's great niece, Audrey Mebane, accepted the award at the Matthew Henson Earth Conservation Center in Washington, D.C.
On this day in 1855, Captain Absalom Boston of Nantucket died. In an era when many African Americans worked as seamen, Absalom Boston stood out. In 1822 he captained an all-black crew on the whale ship Industry. That was but one unusual aspect of the voyage. Captains were usually respected but rarely liked. Boston's crew, however, had such a positive attitude toward him that they memorialized him in a ballad. He was a leader aboard ship and on land. When he retired from whaling, he combined a successful business with work on behalf of the island's black community. Although Absalom Boston had helped to integrate the island's public schools, when he died as a respected man of 70, he was buried in a segregated cemetery.
Also, you didn't list any famous Hispanic scientists. Why is that? Are you bigoted against Hispanic scientists, or couldn't you find any? If you know of any great Hispanic scientists and astronauts please name them.
* Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
* Franklin Chang-D́az, astronaut
* Mario Molina, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
* Carlos Noriega, astronaut
* Ellen Ochoa, astronaut
* Severo Ochoa, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist