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Sullivan, Otha Richard, 1941-

African American inventors / Otha Richard Sullivan ; Jim Haskins, general editor.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2011?]

x, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times.

Black stars

Black stars (New York, N.Y.)

African American inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Biographies.

Haskins, James, 1941-2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Benjamin Banneker -- Norbert Rillieux -- Benjamin Montgomery -- Elijah McCoy -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Andrew Jackson Beard -- Jan Earnest Matzeliger -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Granville T. Woods -- George Washington Carver -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Garrett Augustus Morgan -- Ernest Everett Just -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. -- 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

9781118115992 (pbk.)

1118115996 (pbk.)

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