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Title:

Pioneers of discovery / edited by Richard Rennert ;introduction by Coretta Scott King.

Publisher:

Chelsea House,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

63 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American scientists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Discoveries in science--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Scientists.
African Americans--Biography.

Other Authors:

Rennert, Richard Scott, 1956-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Benjamin Banneker -- James Beckwourth -- Guion Bluford -- George Washington Carver -- Charles Drew -- Matthew Henson -- Ernest Everett Just -- Lewis Latimer.

Summary:

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

Series:

Profiles of great Black Americans
A Chelsea House multibiography

ISBN:

9780791020685 (pbk.)
0791020681 (pbk.)
9780791020678
0791020673

LCCN:

93014423

Locations:

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)