Personal Narrative: My Person Is Mae C. Jemison

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My person is Mae c. Jemison. I chose her because she is so inspiring to other african american female women. She shows them that females can do more than what the society labels them to do. I bet it was her for her because she was the only African american female in NASA at the time. Lets see how her life went. Mae c.Jemison born october 17,1956 in decatur alabama. But considered chicago illinois to be her hometown.Her parents are Charlie and Dorothy Jemison born and raised in chicago. Her interest were traveling, graphic arts, photography, sewing skiing, collecting african arts, and languages like russian, swahili and japanese. She also had an interesting background of weight training and dance and exercise. She is an avid leader to. Mae

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