Botanist

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  1. 2. a plant ecologist and botanist, as well as the founder of #BlackBotanistsWeek, an online initiative to “promote, highlight, and create a safe place for Black people who love plants
  2. 3. internship as an estate gardener in Atlanta, which exposed her to a high level of horticultural artisanship. She maintained the lawns of NFL owners. Later in her career, she was landscape manager for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport and served as a county extension agent with the University of Georgia
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  1. 1. worked on several projects that involved research on antifungal substances of strain of bacterium. He worked and chaired at several colleges, including Southern University, Atlanta University, and Howard University. He also was responsible for integrating the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting, which did not allow its African American members to attend
  2. 2. a Civil Rights activist and biologist. He was born in Great Falls, South Carolina. He taught biology at Slippery Rock University for almost four decades. He earned a Ph.D. degree in biology from the University of Iowa.