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The Woman Who Improved Latex: Dr. Bettye Washington Greene
In 1965, Dr.Greene joined Dow Chemical Company, working in the firm’s E.C. Britton Research Laboratory in Midland, Michigan. She was the...
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Love Your Pearly Whites? Thanks Dr. Smitherman
Dr. Herbert C. Smitherman Sr. made history at Proctor & Gamble in 1966, when he became the first Black person hired there with a...