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• Black Inventors

  Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

  Holmes, Keith C.

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  Includes charts and lists of Black inventors in the United States -- including a state-by-state listing -- and documents the names and inventions of African innovators from around the world.

• The Inventive Spirit of African Americans

  Patented Ingenuity

  Sluby, Patricia Carter

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  Recognized for her documentation of Black inventors, Sluby, a patent examiner and later agent, gives a detailed history of Black invention and innovation in order to illuminate names that have been overlooked.

• The History of Black Business in America

  Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship

  Walker, Juliet E. K., 1940-

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  "A richly detailed, sweeping examination of black business from precolonial Africa to the conclusion of the Civil War." - Choice

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

  Kamkwamba, William, 1987-

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  "Witnessing his family's struggle, Kamkwamba's supercharged curiosity leads him to pursue the improbable dream of using "electric wind "(they have no word for windmills) to harness energy for the farm." Publishers Weekly

• On Her Own Ground

  the Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

  Bundles, A'Lelia Perry

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  "With fascinating details on benevolent and fraternal organizations, urban churches, black colleges, political movements and government surveillance of those involved in them, Bundles takes readers on an engrossing tour of a neglected corner of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• African Fractals

  Modern Computing and Indigenous Design

  Eglash, Ron, 1958-

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  "Eglash examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry. His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics, African culture, anthropology, and computer simulations."

• Created Equal

  the Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators

  Brodie, James Michael, 1957-

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  "Journalist Brodie compiles biographical sketches of more than 60 African Americans who have brought out inventions and innovative ideas since the slave era." - Publishers Weekly

• Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation

  Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson

  Fouché, Rayvon, 1969-

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  Fouché Looks beyond the person and their inventions to find out what life was really like to invent during the pressure of the Jim Crow era.

• Rooted in the Earth

  Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage

  Glave, Dianne D.

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  "Draws on personal perspectives and oral and recorded histories to detail the ways that the history of Africans in America is rooted in the earth." - Booklist

• The Life of Benjamin Banneker

  Bedini, Silvio A.

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  "Bedini’s work deals with the economy of 18th-centrury Maryland, the important contributions of the Ellicott family to the area and the new nation, the surveying of the District of Columbia, and the methods used by early almanac makers in their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

  Haber, Louis

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  "An auspicious roster, creative, eloquently black, mostly self-educated--worth knowing equally for themselves and for their work." - Kirkus

• High on the Hog

  a Culinary Journey From Africa to America

  Harris, Jessica B.

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  Of enduring interest... are her observations about the alterations in the American diet wrought first by the slaves and then by subsequent generations of their descendants. Because many slaves worked in food preparation—and, following…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inventing the Cotton Gin

  Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

  Lakwete, AngL1499ela, 1949-

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  Who invented the Cotton Gin? Many would reply Eli Whitney, but the history of the cotton gin is more complicated than that.

• Working the Roots

  Over 400 Years of Traditonal African American Healing

  Lee, Michele E.,

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  Lee travelled the south to gather African American healing remedies and shares them here with stories from the people she met.

• Lucean Arthur Headen

  the Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur

  Snider, Jill D.,

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  "Determined and ambitious, Headen left the South, and after toiling for a decade as a Pullman porter, risked everything to pursue his dream. He eventually earned eleven patents, most for innovative engine designs and anti-icing methods for aircraft.…Read moreRead more of this annotation