african american scientists

Traces the lives of fourteen black scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions in the various fields of science and industry.

Profiles twenty-six female African-American scientists and inventors from throughout three hundred years of history.

Presents a short biography of African-American surveyor and author, Benjamin Banneker, who helped to survey the land for the U.S. Capitol.

Presents alphabetized biographical profiles of 160 important contemporary and historic African-Americans in the fields of math, science, and invention. Each entry includes a further reading list.

A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.

Introduces Benjamin Banneker, a free black man of the eighteenth century who loved to learn and used his knowledge and observations to build a wooden clock, write an almanac, and help survey the streets of Washington, D.C.

Story of the correspondence between Benjamin Banneker, a free black man, who wrote to Thomas Jefferson to tell him how he felt about Jefferson owning slaves.

Briefly presents, in graphic novel format, the life and inventions and innovations of agriculturist and educator George Washington Carver.

Short biographies of eight black American pioneers of discovery, including Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, and Lewis Latimer.