Dr. Shirley Jackson: President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Schools in Washington, DC, were still segregated when Shirley Jackson started her education. We revisit this conversation in which Dr. Jackson tells how she became the first African American woman to get a PhD from MIT, the chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and president of the renowned RPI.
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