Black inventors in the age of segregation : Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
Fouché, Rayvon, 1969-2005
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The author examines the life and work of three African Americans, explaining how each man used invention for financial gain, as a claim on entering adversarial environments, and as a means to technical stature in a Jim Crow institutional setting.
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Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
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240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Originally published: 2003.
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9780801882708 (pbk)
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609.2273
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609.2273
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English
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1216394
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