Dr. Hadiyah- Nicole Green the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. And is the recipient of a $1.1 million grant to further develop a technology she’s pioneered that uses laser-activated nanoparticles to treat cancer. Testing her treatment on mice was a success and Dr. Green became the first person to successfully cure cancer using nanoparticles. Morehouse School of Medicine assistant professor and one of the

#CarolElizabethMoseleyBraun. She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois. Currently, Moseley-Braun teaches at DePaul University in Chicago and Morris Brown College in Atlanta, where she also serves as vice president of the consulting firm GoodWorks International.#BlackHistoryMonth

#JanetEmersonBashen is an African-American entrepreneur who founded the #BashenCorporation, a human resources consulting firm. She earned a patent for her invention of an equal employment opportunity software tool called #LinkLine. She was inducted into the Black Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007 and won a number of other awards throughout her career, including the Houston 100 in 1999, 2000, and 2002 and the Pinnacle Award in 2003. #BlackHistoryMonth

#BrendaERobinson is the first African American female pilot in US Navy history. She has been inducted into the International Pioneer Hall of Fame. The 59th woman to enter the Navy's training program, she became the 42nd to earn her wings, and the first black woman to earn Wings of Gold. #BlackHistoryMonth

#Lexus of #Huntsville in Huntsville, #Alabama owner #EllenaeFairwurst is the FIRST African-American woman to own a luxury car dealership. According to Black Enterprise, Fairwurst joins an extremely small group of minority women who own dealerships in North America. #BlackHistoryMonth

#MarthaLynnSherrod was the first African American judge elected to a countywide seat in Madison County. Before that, she was presiding municipal judge, assistant district attorney and taught criminal justice at Alabama A&M. Sherrod developed the state's first court program for parents with substance-abuse problems and later launched a similar program for juveniles. Judge Sherrod is the FIRST African American Judge with a portrait in the Madison County Courthouse. #AAMU #Hunts

Dr. #AnnRoyMoore became #Huntsville City School system's first black superintendent when she was hired in 2001 and was named Alabama's superintendent of the year in 2008. #BlackHistoryMonth

Opening day was in 1962. The late #WillieBattle was educated in the Madison County School system. He was the owner of Freeman & Battle Barber Shop, the oldest black owned barber shop in Huntsville. Willie had served the Huntsville community as a barber for 57 years. Willie was a member and the first African American to serve on the Madison County Barbers Examiners Board. #WillieB #BlackHistoryMonth