Profiles nearly fifty historical and contemporary African Americans who have made their marks in science, technology, and medicine, including Benjamin Banneker, Joycelyn Elders, and Madame C.J. Walker.
A look at great Africa-American inventors of the past discusses the lives of Benjamin Bradley, Elijah McCoy, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, C. J. Walker, and others. Reissue.
Biographical material on eighteen black Americans who made significant contributions to science and technology in America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.