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Agents of Change: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
Season 1
Episode 13
A one-on-one interview with Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in physics from MIT and eighteenth President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,. Taped live on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago, Jackson was interviewed by fellow physicist and former President of Morehouse College, Dr. Walter E. Massey.
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