The Negro in Science.

8vo, original cloth binding, gilt title on spine, 192 pp. Very slight edgewear, and normal aging; otherwise very good plus. A scarce and uncommon title that was published by a small essentially black college. Considering when this was published, at a time the "civil rights movement' was coming into its own, this has to be viewed as a groundbreaking title. Martin D. Jenkins reminds us in the foreword that while African Americans have made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists is rather low. In the first chapter Herman R. Branson gives an overview and the challenges facing the Negro scientist, in the chapters that follow influential black scientists illustrate their contributions to biology, Chemistry, mathematics, and physics. Branson worked with Linus Pauling on protein stricture, Montague Cobb, another contributor, was the first African American to get a PH. D. in Anthropology. Physicist Warren Henry, well known for his outstanding work on superconductivity, also contributed to this work.