Bibliograph

Scientists, healers, and inventors, an introduction for young readers, by Wade Hudson

Type

Label

Scientists, healers, and inventors, an introduction for young readers, by Wade Hudson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 66) and index

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Scientists, healers, and inventors

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

51226508

Responsibility statement

by Wade Hudson

Series statement

Book of black heroes

Sub title

an introduction for young readers

Summary

The highly anticipated third installment of the Book of Black Heroes series, Scientists, Healers, and Inventors spotlights African Americans who have made valuable contributions in the areas of science, medicine and creative invention. Reaching as far back as the 1700s to the trailblazing work of Benjamin Banneker, Scientists, Healers, and Inventors contains nearly four dozen Black heroes and includes more than 250 years of creativity, ingenuity, and healing by Black Americans

Table Of Contents

Scientists: Benjamin Banneker -- Guion Bluford, Jr. -- George E. Carruthers -- George Washington Carver -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Johnnetta Cole -- Bessie Coleman -- Meredith Gourdine -- Lloyd Augustus Hall -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Mae C. Jemison -- Percy Lavon Julian -- Ernest Everette Just -- Walter Eugene Massey -- Ronald McNair -- Charles Henry Turner -- Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Healers: Patricia Bath -- Benjamin Carson -- May Edward Chinn -- Rebecca J. Cole -- Charles Drew -- Jocelyn Elders -- Halle Tanner Johnson -- Samuel K. Kountz -- Theodore K. Lawless -- Mary Eliza Mahoney -- Clarice D. Reid -- David Andrew Satcher -- Susan McKinley Stewart -- Susie King Taylor -- Faye Wattleton -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Hayes Emil Willis -- Jane C. Wright -- Louis Tompkins Wright -- Inventors: Andrew J. Beard -- David Nelson Crosthwait, Jr. -- Claude Harvard -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Jan Ernst Matzeliger -- Elija McCoy -- Garrett Augustus Morgan -- Norbert Rillieux -- Madame C. J. Walker -- Granville T. Woods -- Chronology -- Glossary of terms -- Selected bibliography -- Index

Target audience

juvenile

Classification