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By Janell Hazelwood | Published March 28, 2012 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

Gloria D. Scott Ph.D was the first African-American to get a degree in zoology from Indiana University in 1959, and made history again in 1975 by becoming the first black woman as national president of the Girl Scouts. She'd go on to become president of Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., where she served from 1987 to 2001.

Gloria D. Scott Ph.D was the first African-American to get a degree in zoology from…