Nubia -- Egypt -- Babylonia -- Mozambique -- Kenya -- Inuit (Eskimo) -- Mexico -- Andes (the Inca) -- Hopi -- People of the plains -- China -- India -- Old Rus -- Benjamin Banneker, astronomer -- George Washington Carver, botanist -- Thomas Fuller, mathematics genius -- Hypatia -- Lewis Latimer -- Garrett Morgan -- Leon Roddy, Ph. D. -- Louis Tompkins Wright -- Space heroines : Mae Jemison and Ellen Ochoa.