Changing the Equation : 50+ US Black Women in STEM.

Bolden, Tonya,

Changing the Equation : 50+ US Black Women in STEM. 50-plus US Black women in STEM 50+ U.S. Black women in STEM Fifty plus US black women in STEM - 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index.

Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler -- Rebecca J. Cole -- Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson -- Eliza Anna Grier -- Mary Eliza Mahoney -- Sarah E. Goode -- Josephine Silone Yates -- Ida Gray Nelson Rollins -- Alice Augusta Ball -- Anna Louise James -- Willa Beatrice Brown -- Ruth Ella Moore -- Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes -- Alfreda Johnson Webb -- Jane Hinton -- Georgia Louise Harris Brown -- Angie Lena Turner King -- Myra Adele Logan -- Flemmie Kittrell -- Carolyn Beatrice Parker -- Marie Maynard Daly -- Jane Cooke Wright -- Annie Easley -- Yvonne Young Clark -- Angella Dorothea Ferguson -- Jessie Isabelle Price -- Bessie Blount -- Georgia Mae Dunston -- Joan Murrell Owens -- June Bacon-Bercey -- Patricia Suzanne Cowings -- Mamie Parker -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Patricia E. Bath -- Donna Auguste -- Pamela McCauley -- Treena Livingston Arinzeh -- Ayanna Howard -- Paula T. Hammond -- Ashanti Johnson -- Yasmin Hurd -- Phyllis A. Dennery -- Lisa D. White -- Emma Garrison-Alexander -- Kimberly Bryant -- Aprille Joy Ericsson -- Lisette Titre-Montgomery -- Latanya Sweeney -- Patrice Banks -- Aomawa Shields.

"Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators, and many more, this book celebrates over 50 women who have shattered the glass ceiling, defied racial discrimination, and pioneered in their fields. In these profiles, young readers will find role models, inspirations, and maybe even reasons to be the STEM leaders of tomorrow. These stories help young readers to dream big and stay curious. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index"--

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, 2021. A Junior Library Guild selection. NSTA Best STEM Book, 2021.

1419707345 9781419707346

2019025625


African American women scientists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Women in science--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Minorities in science--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African American women scientists.
Women in science.
Minorities in science.
African American women--Biography.
Femmes dans les sciences--Biographies--Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
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African American women scientists
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African American women--Biography.
Women scientists--United States--Biography.


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