Alexa Canady -- Benjamin Banneker -- Charles Drew -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Elijah McCoy -- Flemmie Pansy Kittrell -- Garrett Augustus Morgan -- George Washington Carver -- Henry Brown -- Isaac R. Johnson -- James Edward Maceo West -- Katherine Johnson -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Marie Van Brittan Brown -- Norbert Rillieux -- Osbourn Dorsey -- Philip Emeagwali -- Q is for Queens, New York -- Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Thomas W. Stewart -- Valerie Thomas -- Pasi William Sachiti -- Madam C.J. Walker -- Betty X -- Yvonne Clark -- Zora Neale Hurston.
Summary:
Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.