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qwlauren35

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Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:20 AM Feb 2019

Black History Month 2019: Day 1 - STEM in the 19th Century

Welcome Black History Month. Would you believe I’ve been researching Black History for nearly 30 years and the first thing I ever chose to study was blacks in science. Armed with books by Ivan Van Sertima and JA Rogers, I read about, and did presentations about Egypt, African astronomy and architecture and so many of the “African-American Firsts” of the 19th and 20th century. Turn forward 30 years, and now there is the Internet, where there has been such a fantastic effort to uncover black scientists and inventors, that I am overwhelmed with examples of our contributions to all scientific and engineering fields. Today we are in every major university, every Fortune 500 manufacturing company, every national lab. We are inventing things, we are discovering things, and we are running things. So of course, I can’t wait to share with you my “discoveries”.

https://laurenkfoster.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/black-history-month-2019-day-1-stem-in-the-19th-century/

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Black History Month 2019: Day 1 - STEM in the 19th Century (Original Post) qwlauren35 Feb 2019 OP
Good stuff. Now lets get it into school books! marble falls Feb 2019 #1
This! nt. spicysista Feb 2019 #2
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