{"id":425026,"date":"2017-02-23T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/charles-t-smoot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:04:00","slug":"charles-t-smoot","status":"publish","type":"image-article","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/charles-t-smoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles T. Smoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"1311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?w=1041\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Charles T. Smoot\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=238,300 238w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=768,967 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=813,1024 813w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=318,400 318w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=476,600 476w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=715,900 715w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smoot_photo.jpg?resize=953,1200 953w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Charles Smoot was employed by NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center where he began laying the foundation of a cooperative program targeting qualified African American students from universities across the nation.<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Charles Smoot is a native of Anniston, Alabama and a 1952 graduate of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. Smoot came to Huntsville in 1963 when his wife took a position teaching mathematics at Alabama A&M University. Smoot was employed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he began laying the foundation of a cooperative program targeting qualified African American students from universities across the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 1963, Smoot helped establish a program between Marshall and Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which at the time was one of only six Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States with accredited engineering departments. From 1963 forward, Smoot continued to travel to schools across the country from Michigan to Puerto Rico recruiting students in the fields of engineering, physics, and mathematics. Over his many years, Smoot established key contacts with professors, students, advisors, department heads, and placement directors that held the door open for African Americas to gain access to jobs that had previously remained out of reach in the South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/MSFC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Smoot was employed by NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center where he began laying the foundation of a cooperative program targeting qualified African American students from universities across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230982,"template":"","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[]},"categories":[],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[],"coauthors":[3854],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Charles T. 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