Scientists, Healers, and Inventors: An Introduction for Young Readers

by Wade Hudson

Overview

In this volume of the popular Book of Black Heroes series, readers will learn about the many contributions Black men and women have made in the areas of science, medicine and creative invention. Short entry biological sketches herald the ground breaking work of well-known Black heroes such as scientist, George Washington Carver and surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, and introduce the trailblazing accomplishments of other Black heroes such as inventor Lewis Latimer and Halle Johnson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780940975972
Publisher:	Just Us Books, Inc.
Publication date:	07/05/2013
Series:	Book of Black Heroes , #3
Edition description:	First ed.
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	8.34(w) x 10.16(h) x 0.19(d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

Table of Contents

	Scientists
	Benjamin Banneker	11
	Guion Bluford, Jr.	12
	George E. Carruthers	13
	George Washington Carver	14
	Jewel Plummer Cobb	15
	Johnnetta Cole	16
	Bessie Coleman	17
	Meredith Gourdine	18
	Lloyd Augustus Hall	19
	Shirley Ann Jackson	20
	Mae C. Jemison	21
	Percy Lavon Julian	22
	Ernest Everette Just	23
	Walter Eugene Massey	24
	Ronald McNair	25
	Charles Henry Turner	26
	Neil deGrasse Tyson	27
	Healers
	Patricia Bath	29
	Benjamin Carson	30
	May Edward Chinn	31
	Rebecca J. Cole	32
	Charles Drew	33
	Jocelyn Elders	34
	Halle Tanner Johnson	35
	Samuel K. Kountz	36
	Theodore K. Lawless	37
	Mary Eliza Mahoney	38
	Clarice D. Reid	39
	David Andrew Satcher	40
	Susan McKinley Stewart	41
	Susie King Taylor	42
	Faye Wattleton	43
	Daniel Hale Williams	44
	Hayes Emil Willis	45
	Jane C. Wright	46
	Louis Tompkins Wright	47
	Inventors
	Andrew J. Beard	49
	David Nelson Crosthwait, Jr.	50
	Claude Harvard	51
	Frederick McKinley Jones	52
	Lewis Howard Latimer	53
	Jan Ernst Matzeliger	54
	Elijah McCoy	55
	Garrett Augustus Morgan	56
	Norbert Rillieux	57
	Madame C. J. Walker	58
	Granville T. Woods	59
	Chronology	60
	Glossary of Terms	64
	Selected Bibliography	66
	Index	67
	Acknowledgements/About the Author	71