Beschreibung:
OTHA RICHARD SULLIVAN, Ed.D., is a former science teacher and is currently a middle school guidance counselor. As head of Detroit's program to infuse African American history into the public school curriculum, he instructs teachers on how to incorporate African American scientific history into their classes.
Meet the black inventors who lived their dreams--from the early years to modern times
THE EARLY YEARS. Benjamin Banneker. Norbert Rillieux. Benjamin Montgomery. THE CIVIL WAR YEARS AND RECONSTRUCTION. Elijah McCoy. Lewis Howard Latimer. Andrew Jackson Beard. Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Daniel Hale Williams. Granville T. Woods. INTO THE NEW CENTURY. George Washington Carver. Madame C. J. Walker. Garrett Augustus Morgan. Ernest Everett Just. Frederick McKinley Jones. David Nelson Crosthwait. MODERN TIMES. Percy Lavon Julian. Charles Richard Drew. Claude Harvard. Jane Cooke Wright. Meredith Gourdine. Michael Croslin. Earl D. Shaw. John P. Moon. George E. Carruthers. Shirley Ann Jackson. Chronology. Notes Bibliography. Picture Credits. Index.