History of:

Mae C. Jemison

Education

From kindergarten to senior year in high school, Jemison attended public schooling in southern Chicago. Then, went to college in California attending Stanford University and majored in chemical engineering and African and African American studies. Finally, Jemison attended Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in New York City earning a doctorate degree in medicine.

Family

Parents: Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Green

Siblings: Ada Jemison Bullock and Charles Jemison

Birth place

  • Birth location: Decatur, Alabama, but she was raised and grew up in Chicago, Illinois (which is where she considers home)

  • Birth date: October 17, 1956 - not deceased

Chicago, Illinois, United States (1963), Mae Jemison (center) with her brother and sister. Early-mid 1960s, Retrieved from: https://prabook.com/web/show-photo.jpg?id=2846819&cache=false
Chicago (1992) Photograph by John H. White for the Chicago Sun-Times ST-17500823, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM, Retrieved from: https://www.chicagohistory.org/a-dancer-among-the-stars/