African American Inventors

by Stephen Currie

This survey of African American inventors includes some familiar names, but more whose names are less recognizable than their work. The stories of these bright and ambitious individuals are about science, technology, and individual discovery, but also about what it means, and what it has meant, to be black in the United States. Profiles of the most prominent inventors during each era of American history illustrate how African Americans were viewed...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420501216
• ISBN13: 9781420501216
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10