THE EARLY YEARS. Benjamin Banneker. Norbert Rillieux. Benjamin Montgomery. THE CIVIL WAR YEARS AND RECONSTRUCTION. Elijah McCoy. Lewis Howard Latimer. Andrew Jackson Beard. Jan Earnst Matzeliger. Daniel Hale Williams. Granville T. Woods. INTO THE NEW CENTURY. George Washington Carver. Madame C. J. Walker. Garrett Augustus Morgan. Ernest Everett Just. Frederick McKinley Jones. David Nelson Crosthwait. MODERN TIMES. Percy Lavon Julian. Charles Richard Drew. Claude Harvard. Jane Cooke Wright. Meredith Gourdine. Michael Croslin. Earl D. Shaw. John P. Moon. George E. Carruthers. Shirley Ann Jackson. Chronology. Notes Bibliography. Picture Credits. Index.
OTHA RICHARD SULLIVAN, Ed.D., is a former science teacher and is currently a middle school guidance counselor. As head of Detroit's program to infuse African American history into the public school curriculum, he instructs teachers on how to incorporate African American scientific history into their classes. JIM HASKINS has written more than ninety books for young readers, including African American Entrepreneurs (Wiley); his collaboration with Rosa Parks on her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story; and Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Award for the body of his work and the Coretta Scott King Book Award.
"Wiley Publishers offers two from its Black Stars series that are sure to keep children's thinking caps operating during the heat. Each offers finely crafted short biographies of some well-known and some almost-unheard-of giants in their fields."--Detroit Free Press
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