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Blacks in science: ancient and modern. Edited by
Ivan Van Sertima. New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Books, c1983.
302 p. (Journal of African civilizations, v. 5, no. 1/2) DT14.J68,
v.5, no.1/2 The Negro almanac: a reference work on the Afro-American. Compiled
and edited by Harry A. Ploski and James D. Williams. 4th ed. New
York, Wiley, c1983. 1550 p.
Subject headings under which books can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs include the following. AFRO-AMERICAN AGRICULTURISTS
Afro-American encyclopedia. Chief compiler and editor,
Martin Rywell. North Miami, Fla., Educational Book Publishers, 1974.
10 v. Baker, Henry Edwin. The colored inventor. New York,
Arno Press, 1969. 12 p. Bauchum, Rosalind G., and James W. A. Bauchum III.
The Black architect. Monticello, Ill., Vance Bibliographies, 1982.
6 p. (Architecture series: bibliography, A-728) Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: a history of
Black America. 5th ed. Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1982. 681 p. The Black resource guide. 1981- Washington, Ben Johnson.
Blacks in the military: essential documents. Edited
by Bernard C. Nalty and Morris J. MacGregor. Wilmington, Del., Scholarly
Resources, c1981. 367 p. Bradley, Michael Anderson. The Black discovery of
America: amazing evidence of daring voyages by ancient West African
mariners. Toronto, Personal Library, c1981. 193 p. Brown, William Wells. The Black man: his antecedents,
his genius, and his achievements. Boston, J. Redpath, 1863. New
York, Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. 312 p. Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth. The path we tread: Blacks
in nursing, 1854-1984. Philadelphia, Lippincott, c1986. 254 p. A Century of Black photographers, 1840-1960. Edited
by Valencia Hollins Coar. Providence, R.I., Museum of Art, Rhode
Island School of Design, c1983. 192 p. A Century of Black surgeons: the U.S.A. experience.
Edited by Claude H. Organ, Jr., and Margaret M. Kosiba. Norman,
Okla., Transcript Press, c1987. 2 v. (973 p.) Curtis, James L. Blacks, medical schools, and society.
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1971. 169 p. Driskell, Claude Evans. History of Chicago Black dental
professionals, 1850-1983. Chicago, C. E. Driskell, c1982. 122 p.
Dummett, Clifton O., and Lois Doyle Dummett. Afro-Americans
in dentistry: sequence and consequence of events. Los Angeles, C.
Dummett, c1978. 144 p. The Ebony handbook. By the editors of Ebony. Edited
by Doris E. Saunders. Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1974. 553 p. Encyclopedia of Black America. Edited by W. Augustus
Low and Virgil A. Clift. New York, Da Capo Press, 1984, c1981. 921
p. Haber, Louis. The role of the American Negro in the
fields of science. New York? 1966. 70 l. Hardesty, Von, and Dominick Pisano. Black wings: the
American Black in aviation. Washington, National Air and Space Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, 1983. 80 p. Holt, Thomas, Cassandra Smith Parker, and Rosalyn
Terborg-Penn. A special mission: the story of Freedmen's Hospital,
1862-1962. Washington, Academic Affairs Division, Howard University,
1975. 76 p. Howard University. School of Medicine. Howard University
Medical Department, Washington, D.C., a historical biographical
and statistical souvenir. Compiled and edited for and by authority
of the medical faculty of Howard University by Daniel Smith Lamb.
Freeport, N.Y, Books for Libraries Press, 1971. 301 p. Ives, Patricia Carter. Creativity and inventions:
the genius of Afro-Americans and women in the United States and
their patents. Arlington, Va., Research Unlimited, 1987. 88 p. Jay, James M. Negroes in science: natural science
doctorates, 1876-1969. Detroit, Balamp Pub., 1971. 87 p. Johnson, Jesse J., ed. Black Armed Forces officers,
1736-1971 (a documented pictorial history). Hampton, Va., c1971.
169 p. (His Missing pages in U.S. history) Johnson, Jesse J., ed. The Black soldier (documented,
1619-1815). Hampton, Va., 1969. 174 p. (His Missing pages in U.S.
history) ----- Black women in the Armed Forces, 1942-1974 (a
pictorial history). Hampton, Va., Johnson, c1974. 110 p. (His Missing
pages in U.S. history) Lusterman, Seymour. Minorities in engineering: the
corporate role: a research report from the Conference Board. New
York, Conference Board, c1979. 53 p. (Conference Board report, no.
756) Lynch, L. Riddick. The complete guide to selected
health and health-related careers. Teaneck, N.J., Ros Bernard Publications,
c1979. 163 p. Maryland. Morgan State College, Baltimore.
The Negro in science. Edited by Julius H. Taylor. Baltimore, Morgan
State College Press, 1955. 192 p. Maynard, Aubre de L. Surgeons to the poor: the Harlem
Hospital story. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1978. 258 p.
Minorities & women in the health fields. 1984
ed. United States Health Resources and Services Administration,
Division of Health Professions Analysis. [Bethesda, Md.?] Washington,
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service,
Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions,
Division of Health Professions Analysis; For sale by the Supt. of
Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1984. 191 p. Minorities in science: the challenge for change in
biomedicine. Edited by Vijaya L. Melnick and Franklin D. Hamilton.
New York, Plenum Press, c1977. 296 p. Morais, Herbert Montfort. The history of the Negro
in medicine. New York, Publishers Co., 1967. 317 p. Morrison, Nathan. Profile of the Black physician and
the health-care experience of the U.S. population by color. New
York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1977. 36 p. Odegaard, Charles E. Minorities in medicine: from
receptive passivity to positive action, 1966-76. New York, Josiah
Macy, Jr., Foundation; Port Washington, N.Y., distributed by the
Independent Publishers Group, c1977. 164 p. Patton, Gerald W. War and race: the Black officer
in the American military, 1915-1941. Westport, Conn., Greenwood
Press, c1981. 214 p. (Contributions in Afro-American and African
studies, no. 62) Pearson, Willie. Black scientists, white society,
and colorless science: a study of universalism in American science.
Millwood, N.Y., Associated Faculty Press, c1985. 201 p. Profile of the Negro in American dentistry. Edited
by Foster Kidd. Society for Research and Study of the Negro in Dentistry.
Washington, Howard University Press, 1979. 211 p. Reitzes, Dietrich C. Negroes and medicine. Cambridge,
Published for the Common wealth Fund by Harvard University Press,
1958. 400 p. Research directions of Black psychologists. A. Wade
Boykin, Anderson J. Franklin, J. Frank Yates, editors. New York,
Russell Sage Foundation, c1979. 440 p. Rose, Robert. Lonely eagles: the story of America's
Black Air Force in World War II. Los Angeles, Tuskegee Airmen, Western
Region, 1976. 160 p. Roucek, Joseph Slabey, and Thomas Kiernan, eds. The
Negro impact on Western civilization. New York, Philosophical Library,
1970. 506 p. Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Women as healers: a noble
tradition. Atlanta, Women's Re search and Resource Center, Spelman
College, c1983. 24 p. Staupers, Mabel Keaton. No time for prejudice: a story
of the integration of Negroes in nursing in the United States. New
York, Macmillan, 1961. 206 p. Steward, Theophilus Gould. The colored regulars in
the United States Army. New York, Arno Press, 1969. 344 p. Susie, Debra Anne. In the way of our grandmothers:
a cultural view of twentieth- century midwifery in Florida. Athens,
Ga., University of Georgia Press, c1988. 254 p. Toppin, Edgar Allan. A biographical history of Blacks
in America since 1528. New York, McKay, 1971. 499 p. United States. National Institutes of Health. Division
of Physician and Health Professions Education. Minority groups
in medicine: selected bibliography. Bethesda, Md., For sale by the
Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1972. 15 p.
(DHEW publication, no. (NIH) 72-331) Van Sertima, Ivan. They came before Columbus. New
York, Random House, c1976. 288 p. Waddell, William H. The Black man in veterinary medicine:
Afro-American-Negro- Colored. Rev. ed. Honolulu, Hawaii? W. H. Waddell,
1982? 176 p. Wilkes, Laura Eliza. Missing pages in American history,
revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United
States of America, 1641-1815. New York, AMS Press, 1973. 91 p. Woodson, Carter Godwin, and Charles Harris Wesley.
Negro makers of history. 5th ed. Washington, Associated Publishers,
c1958. 406 p. Young, Herman A., and Barbara H. Young. Scientists
in the Black perspective. Sponsored by the Lincoln Foundation. s.l.,
s.n., 1974. 185 p.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Women in medicine. Chicago,
1971. 32 p. (Heritage series, no. 4) American Black scientists and inventors. Edited by
Edward S. Jenkins ... et al. Washington, National Science Teachers
Association, 1975. 79 p. Black mathematicians and their works. Edited by Virginia
K. Newell and others. Ardmore, Pa., Dorrance, c1980. 327 p. Bontemps, Arna Wendell. 100 years of Negro freedom.
New York, Dodd, Mead, 1961. 276 p. Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. Negro builders and heroes.
Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 315 p.
Carwell, Hattie. Blacks in science: astrophysicist
to zoologist. Hicksville, N.Y., Exposition Press, c1977. 95 p. Contemporary Black America. Prepared by Edit, Inc.,
with Onnie Kirk and others. Nashville, Southwestern Co., c1980.
530 p. Contemporary minority leaders in nursing: Afro-American,
Hispanic, Native American perspectives. Edited by Helen S. Miller,
Ernest D. Mason. Kansas City, Mo., American Nurses' Association,
c1983. 155 p. Contributions of Black women to America. Edited by
Marianna W. Davis. Columbia, S.C., Kenday Press, 1982, c1981. 2
v. Dabbs, Henry. A first edition reference work on Black
brass: Black generals and admirals in the Armed Forces of the United
States. Freehold, N.J., Afro-American Heritage House, 1984, c1983.
228 p. Dannett, Sylvia G. L. Profiles of Negro womanhood.
Yonkers, N.Y., Educational Heritage, 1964-66. 2 v. Dictionary of American Negro biography. Edited by
Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston. New York, Norton, c1982.
680 p. Greene, Harry Washington. Holders of doctorates among
American Negroes; an educational and social study of Negroes who
have earned doctoral degrees in course, 1876-1943. Boston, Meador
Pub. Co., 1946. 275 p. Guthrie, Robert V. Even the rat was white: a historical
view of psychology. New York, Harper & Row, c1976. 224 p. Ho, James K. K. Black engineers in the United States--a
directory. Washington, Howard University Press, 1974. 281 p. Homespun heroines and other women of distinction.
Compiled by Hallie Q. Brown. New York, Oxford University Press,
1988. 248 p. Jackson, George F. Black women, makers of history:
a portrait. Rev. ed. Sacramento, Fong & Fong, c1977. 289 p.
Johnson, Hayden C. The Fighting 99th Air Squadron,
1941-45. New York, Vantage Press, c1987. 49 p. Klein, Aaron E. The hidden contributors: Black scientists
and inventors in America. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971. 203
p. Lee, Irvin H. Negro Medal of Honor men. 3d ed., new
and enl. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1969. 156 p. Majors, Monroe Alphus. Noted Negro women, their triumphs
and activities. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971,
c1893. 365 p. Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders: Black women
photographers. New York, Dodd, Mead, c1986. 201 p. Peters, Raymond Eugene, and Clinton M. Arnold. Black
Americans in aviation. San Diego, Neyenesch Printers, c1975. 85
p. Robinson, Wilhelmena S. Historical Negro biographies.
2d ed., rev. New York, Publishers Co., 1969. 291 p. Rogers, J. A. World's great men of color. Edited with
an introd., commentary, and new bibliographical notes by John Henrik
Clark. New York, Macmillan, 1972, c1946-47. 2 v. Sammons, Vivian O. Blacks in science and medicine.
New York, Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1990. 293 p. Simmons, William J. Men of mark; eminent, progressive
and rising. Cleveland, Baltimore, The Rewell Pub. Co., 1891. 736
p. Spradling, Mary Mace. In black and white: Afro-Americans
in print; a guide to Afro-Americans who have made contributions
to the United States of America from 1619 to 1969. Kalamazoo, Mich.,
Kalamazoo Library System, 1971. 127 p. Spradling, Mary Mace. In Black and white: a guide
to magazine articles, newspaper articles, and books concerning more
than 15,000 Black individuals and groups. 3d ed. Detroit, Gale Research
Co., c1980. 2 v. (1282 p.) ----- In Black and white. Supplement: a guide to magazine
articles, newspaper articles, and books concerning more than 6,700
Black individuals and groups. 3rd ed. Detroit, Gale, c1985. 628
p. Webb, Harvey, and Lloyd Cecil Rhodes. The book of
presidents: leaders of organized dentistry. Charlottesville, Va.,
National Dental Association, 1977. 63 p. Western Electric Company, Inc. Legacy for all; a record
of achievements by Black American scientists. New York, 19??. 27
p. Who's who among Black Americans. 1975/1976- Northbrook,
Ill., Who's Who Among Black Americans, Inc., Pub. Co. Who's who in colored America: a biographical dictionary
of notable living persons of Negro descent in America. New York,
Who's Who in Colored America Corp., c1927-1950. Williams, James C., comp. At last recognition in America:
a reference handbook of unknown Black inventors and their contributions
to America. Chicago, B.C.A. Pub. Corp., c1978- Willis-Thomas, Deborah. An illustrated bio-bibliography
of Black photographers, 1940-1988. New York, Garland, 1989. 483
p. (Garland reference library of the humanities, 760) Willis-Thomas, Deborah. Black photographers, 1840-1940:
an illustrated biobibliography. New York, Garland, 1985. 141 p.
(Garland reference library of the humanities, 401) Juvenile literature: Adams, Russell L. Great Negroes, past and present.
Illustrated by Eugene Winslow. Edited by David P. Ross, Jr. 3rd
ed. Chicago, Afro-American Pub. Co., 1969. 212 p. Haber, Louis. Black pioneers of science and invention.
New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. 181 p. Hayden, Robert C. Eight Black American inventors.
Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1972. 142 p. ----- Seven Black American scientists. Reading, Mass.,
Addison-Wesley, c1970. 172 p. Hayden, Robert C., and Jacqueline L. Harris. Nine
Black American doctors. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, c1976. 144
p.
Adair, Gene. George Washington Carver. New York,
Chelsea House, c1989. 110 p. Allen, Will W. Banneker: the Afro-American astronomer.
From data collected by Will W. Allen assisted by Daniel Murray.
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971. 80 p. Bedini, Silvio A. The life of Benjamin Banneker. New
York, Scribner, 1971, c1972. 434 p. Buckler, Helen. Daniel Hale Williams, Negro surgeon.
2d ed. New York, Pitman Pub. Corp., 1968. 381 p. Cotton, Barbara R. Non verba opera = Not words but
works: the biography of Joseph Howard Griffin, M.D. Tallahassee,
Fla., B. R. Cotton, c1980. 216 l. Du Bois, Shirley Graham. Your most humble servant.
New York, Messner, 1949. 235 p. Fenderson, Lewis H. Daniel Hale Williams: open-heart
doctor. New York, McGraw-Hill, c1971. 128 p. Fletcher, Marvin. America's first Black general: Benjamin
O. Davis, Sr., 1880-1970. Lawrence, Kan., University Press of Kansas,
c1989. 226 p. Hardwick, Richard. Charles Richard Drew, pioneer in
blood research. New York, Scribner, 1967. 144 p. Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955. A Negro explorer
at the North Pole. New York, Arno Press, 1969. 200 p. James Van DerZee Institute. The Black photographer
(1908-1970): a survey. New York? 1971. 36 p. Kitchens, John W., and Lynn B. Kitchens, eds. Carver,
George Washington. Tuskegee Institute, United States National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, joint author. Guide to the
microfilm edition of the George Washington Carver papers at Tuskegee
Institute. Tuskegee, Ala., Division of Behavioral Science Research,
Carver Research Foundation, Tuskegee Institute, 1975. 50 p. Lichello, Robert. Pioneer in blood plasma: Dr. Charles
Richard Drew. New York, J. Messner, 1968. 190 p. Mahone-Lonesome, Robyn. Charles Drew. New York, Chelsea
House Publishers, c1990. 109 p. Manning, Kenneth R. Black Apollo of science: the life
of Ernest Everett Just. New York, Oxford University Press, 1983.
397 p. McGovern, James R. Black Eagle: General Daniel "Chappie"
James, Jr. University, Ala., University of Alabama Press, c1985.
204 p. McMurry, Linda O. George Washington Carver, scientist
and symbol. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981. 367 p. Parks, Gordon. A choice of weapons. St. Paul, Minnesota
Historical Society Press, 1986. 274 p. Patterson, Lillie. Benjamin Banneker, genius of early
America. Nashville, Abingdon, c1978. 142 p. Perry, John Edward. Forty cords of wood: memoirs of
a medical doctor. Jefferson City, Mo., Lincoln University, 1947.
459 p. Peyton, Thomas Roy. Quest for dignity: an autobiography
of a Negro doctor. Rev. reprinting. Los Angeles, Publishers Western,
1963, c1950. 160 p. Poindexter, Hildrus Augustus. My world of reality
(an autobiography). Detroit, Balamp Pub., 1973. 342 p. Scally, M. Anthony. Medicine, motherhood, and mercy:
the story of a Black woman doctor. Washington, Associated Publishers,
c1979. 121 p. Still, James. Early recollections and life of Dr.
James Still, 1812-1885. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University
Press, 1973, c1877. 274 p. Wynes, Charles E. Charles Richard Drew: the man and
the myth. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, c1988. 132 p. Juvenile Literature: Dolan, Edward F. Matthew Henson, Black explorer. New
York, Dodd, Mead, c1979. 193 p. Gilman, Michael. Matthew Henson. New York, Chelsea
House Publishers, c1988. 110 p. Haskins, James, and Kathleen Benson. Space challenger:
the story of Guion Bluford: an authorized biography. Minneapolis,
Carolrhoda Books, c1984. 64 p. Haskins, James. James Van DerZee, the picture-takin'
man. New York, Dodd, Mead, c1979. 256 p. Krass, Peter. Sojourner Truth. New York, Chelsea House,
c1988. 110 p. Mitchell, Barbara. Shoes for everyone: a story about
Jan Matzeliger. Minneapolis, Carolrhoda Books, c1986. 63 p. Ott, Virginia, and Gloria Borseth Swanson. Man with
a million ideas: Fred Jones, genius/inventor. Minneapolis, Lerner
Publications Co., c1977. 109 p. Patterson, Lillie. Sure hands, strong heart: the life
of Daniel Hale Williams. Nashville, Abingdon, c1981. 159 p. R Pitrone, Jean Maddern. Trailblazer: Negro nurse in
the American Red Cross. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969.
191 p. Verheyden-Hilliard, Mary Ellen. Mathematician and
administrator, Shirley Mathis McBays. Bethesda, Md., Equity Institute,
c1985. 31 p. ----- Scientist and administrator, Antoinette Rodez
Schiesler. Bethesda, Md., Equity Institute, c1985. 31 p. ----- Scientist and strategist, June Rooks. Bethesda,
Md., Equity Institute, c1988. 31 p.
Crowley, Michael F. Women and minorities in science
and engineering. Washington, National Science Foundation; For sale
by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977. 24 p. The GEM experience: an American education success
story: proceedings, October 18 & 19, 1983. Co-sponsors, National
Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.,
American Association for the Advancement of Science; host, The Johns
Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory. Notre Dame, Ind.,
National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering,
c1984. 147 p. Macy Conference on Negroes for Medicine, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., 1967. Negroes for medicine: report of a Macy conference. Edited
by Lee Cogan. Baltimore, Published for the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation
by the Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. 71 p. Minorities and women in science and technology: transcript
of proceedings, Congressional Black Caucus, Washington, D.C., Friday,
25 September 1981. Washington, Ace-Federal Reporters, 1981. 204
l. Walsh, John. Minorities in medicine: report of a conference.
New York, Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, c1977. 42 p. Women and minorities in science: strategies for increasing
participation. Sheila M. Humphreys, American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Boulder, Colo., Published by Westview Press
for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1982.
218 p. (AAAS selected symposium; v. 66)
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature on Blacks in the sciences and related disciplines in the sciences are listed below. Consult reference librarian for locations of these materials in Science Reading Room; some are available in CD-ROM format.
Journals that often contain relevant articles on Blacks in the sciences include the following:
Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Chronicles of Black courage.
Ebony, v. 38, Sept. 1983: 131- 134. Black inventors: past and present. Black enterprise,
v. 5, July 1975: 32, 35-36. Blacks who overcame the odds. Ebony, v. 42, Dec. 1986:
68. Brock, Pope. Chief Anderson; when the skies were unfriendly,
this pioneer aviator opened the blue yonder to Blacks. People, v.
30, Nov. 28, 1988: 149-150, 152, 154, 156. Brown, Roxanne. Dollie Bennett: Haiti's good samaritan;
Detroit nurse braves hardships to provide free medical aid for thousands
in an area void of physicians, electricity and running water. Ebony,
v. 44, Nov. 1988: 64, 66, 68, 71. Brown, Roxanne. A family practice: father and six
children make the world of medicine a way of life. Ebony, v. 43,
July 1988: 84, 86, 88. Campbell, Bebe Moore. Wanted, engineers and scientists.
Black enterprise, v. 11, Feb. 1981: 30-35. Claude Organ, Jr.: super surgeon; noted physician,
professor and author has soared to the top of his field. Ebony,
v. 42, Jan. 1987: 88, 90, 92, 95. Cowin, Roy. Minorities in engineering. Black collegian,
v. 13, Dec. 1981/Jan. 1982: 140, 142, 147. Dorn, Edwin, and P. Butler. Blacks in the military.
Focus, v. 11, Mar. 1983: 3-6. Dozier, Richard. The Black architectural experience
in America. AIA journal, v. 65, July 1976: 162-164, 166, 168. Frierson, Henry T., Jr. Minority participation in
R&D: developing an undergraduate feeder system. Journal of Negro
education, v. 50, fall 1981: 401-406. George, Yolanda Scott. The status of Black women in
science. Black collegian, v. 9, May/June 1979: 64, 68-72, 114. Goldsmith, Marsha F., Charles Marwick, and Carin Olson.
Minority physician training: critical for improving overall health
of nation. JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association,
v. 261, Jan. 13, 1989: 187-189. Gould, Stephen Jay. Just in the middle: a solution
to the mechanist-vitalist controversy. Natural history, v. 93, Jan.
1984: 24. Hairston, Deborah W. On the threshold of discovery.
(Black scientists are pioneering in laboratory research) Black enterprise,
v. 15, Feb. 1985: 49. Hall, Eleanor R., and Phyllis Post-Kammer. Black mathematics
and science majors: why so few? Career development quarterly, v.
35, Mar. 1987: 206-219. Harris-Hurd, Laura. Engineering: it is quickly becoming
the career choice of the decade for Blacks. Black enterprise, v.
5, Mar. 1975: 57-60. Image maker: the artistry of Moneta Sleet Jr.; Pulitzer
Prize-winning Ebony photojournalist exhibits 30 years of acclaimed
pictures. Ebony, v. 42, Jan. 1987: 66-68, 70-72, 74. Kenschaft, Patricia C. Black women in mathematics
in the United States. American mathematical monthly, v. 88, Oct.
1981: 592-603. Lloyd, Sterling M., Jr., and Russell L. Miller. Black
student enrollment in US medical schools. JAMA: the journal of the
American Medical Association, v. 261, Jan. 13, 1989: 272-274. Long, Michael J. Specialty choice of Black medical
school graduates. Journal of medical education, v. 55, May 1980:
409-414. Marshall, Marilyn. Child of the '60s set to become
first Black woman in space. Special Report: 25 Years After the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. What's Changed? What Hasn't? Ebony, v. 44, Aug.
1989: 50, 52, 54-55. Moore, Deedee. Shooting straight: the many worlds
of Gordon Parks. Smithsonian, v. 20, Apr. 1989: 66-72, 74, 76-77.
Richardson, Alfred L. Blacks and professional engineering
societies. Black collegian, v. 9, Jan./Feb. 1979: 72-74, 76, 78,
140, 144-147. Schmidt, Peter, and Donald H. Avery. Complex iron
smelting and pre-historic culture in Tanzania. Science, v. 201,
Sept. 22, 1978: 1085-1089. Seminar series honors Blacks in science and technology.
[Reported by] Paula Quick Hall. Science, v. 216, Apr. 2, 1982: 43-44.
Slaughter, John B. The Black American: a vision for
the future with special emphasis on science. Negro history bulletin,
v. 36, Jan./Feb./Mar. 1983: 24. White, Frank, III. Black architects: shapers of urban
America. Ebony, v. 38, July 1983: 62-64, 68. ----- Lady pioneer in the oil fields. (Black woman
geophysicist) Ebony, v. 39, Jan. 1984: 60. Williams, Paul S. Blacks who overcame the odds. (Part
I) Ebony, v. 42, Nov. 1986: 148. Young, Herman A., and Barbara H. Young. Science and
Black studies. Journal of Negro education, v. 46, fall 1977: 380-387.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Baker, Henry Edwin. The Negro in the field of invention. Journal of Negro history, v. 2, Jan. 1917: 21-36. Clarke, John Henrik. African-Americans in science and invention: a bibliographical guide. Journal of African civilizations, v. 1, Nov. 1979: 82-84. Hayden, Robert C. Black Americans in the field of science and invention. Journal of African civilizations, v. 1, Nov. 1979: 59-72. Inventions by Blacks 1871-1900. In The Afro American, compiled and edited by Harry A. Ploski and Warren Marr II. New York, Bellwether Co., 1976. p. 797-804. Julian, Percy L. On being scientist, humanist, and Negro. In Wormley, Stanton L., and Lewis H. Fenderson. Many shades of Black. New York, William Morrow and Co., 1969. p. 147-157. Meade, George P. A Negro scientist of slavery days. Scientific monthly, v. 62, Apr. 1946: 317-326."Little known story of Norbert Rillieux, Negro engineer, inventor, and scientist of ante-bellum days." Miller, Kelly. The historic background of the Negro physician. Journal of Negro history, v. 1, Apr. 1916: 99-109. Nabrit, Samuel. There but for the grace of God go I. In Wormley, Stanton L., and Lewis H. Fenderson. Many shades of Black. New York, William Morrow and Co., 1969. p. 161-172. Pearson, Willie, Jr., and LaRue C. Pearson. Baccalaureate origins
of Black American scientists: a cohort analysis. Journal of Negro
education, v. 54, winter 1985: 24-34.
African-American Resource Center Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc. Black Resources Information Coordinating Services, Inc. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center National Medical Association National Technical Association, Inc. New York Public Library |
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