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title: "African American Inventors (Black Stars)"
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# African American Inventors (Black Stars)

**Brand:** wiley
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African American Inventors (Black Stars)

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## Customer Reviews

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    HISTORY THAT IS NOT TAUGHT IN OUR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEMS
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2011*

Most of us in my generation only learned about the contributions of Black people when we went to college and took a Black History course and or studied Black History.  Most minorities and White people take for granted on a daily basis many things we use daily and we just assume someone other than a Black person invented things such as the elevator, traffic lights, increased the production of how cotton was ginned; the many uses of the peanut.  Buy this book!  Most are totally unaware that a Black man orchestrated the building of Washington DC when the French architect who was hired to complete the drawings and oversee the construction became involved in a disagreement with those who funded the project.  He took his drawings and all documents and returned to France.  A Black man working under the French architect advised those funding the project that he could build the project.  He did so from MEMORY. Buy the book!  Many of these inventors were SLAVES.  Some slave owners tried to steal and take credit for many inventions in use today.  However, even in those times slaves prevailed in the court system although he remained a slave.  This writing is but a superb primer into the many things in use today that are the result the brilliant minds of Black people.  Just imagine during WWII the United States Congress debated whether a black American could fly a war plane.  They brought forth finding that a Black man's brain was the size of an "APES" with about the same capacity to learn.  Eleanor Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's wife learned that even though the Tuskegee Airmen the 332 fighter squadron, were trained to fly and fight were not allowed to fight; She was the main reason the Tuskegee Airmen did fight in WWII and served with distinction. Learn about the all black segregated air squadron that flew the P51 Mustang and was requested by White bomber pilots to escort them on raids into Germany because those Black pilots never lost a bomber that they escorted into Germany, but that's in another primer.When I was in grade school in California I learned nothing about Black History.  When my father, a soldier, was transferred to Virginia I went to segregated schools, as the South was segregated even though the military was integrated and I lived in integrated military housing on the base.  We were taught some things in elementary school about Black History and more so when I started high school.  This was also when all these text books were new.  Most text books for all grade levels were recycled from the all white school districts, but some new text books were provided to fill our schools need. When we were transferred back to California there was no more black history taught until i took a course in college.  Great book not just for Black people, but for anyone interested in the missing chapters of OUR AMERICAN HISTORY!

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    I did gain some knowledge from it but still feel a little more elaboration would have made it a fantastic book. And all those in
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015*

Being a black man I am hungry for information on my people contributions to society. This book was too superficial to be appreciated. I did gain some knowledge from it but still feel a little more elaboration would have made it a fantastic book. And all those index pages; what are they suppose to mean? No real information as the exact inventions....just too general for me. Sort of left me hanging..

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    NICE
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017*

YES!  VERY GOOD INFORMATION. BUT I THINK THIS BOOK OR AT LEAST MY/THIS COPY [HEY I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NEW!] WAS PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY SOMEONE NAMED PHILLIP AS A GIFT FROM HIS GRANDMA WAY BACK IN 3-8-99. I WON'T BE GIVING THIS AWAY OR RESELLING IT.

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