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  • African American Scientists, ca. 1975-1990
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African American Scientists, ca. 1975-1990

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

African American contributors to science and technology

Repository

Temple University
Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection
First Floor, Sullivan Hall
12th and Berks Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-6632
http://www.library.temple.edu/collections/blockson/INDEX.HTM

Physical Description

1 file folder ; 31 cm.

Summary

The Blockson Clipping File is a collection of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, programs, brochures and ephemera, all pertaining to aspects of the Black experience in Africa and throughout the diaspora. This folder is one of nearly a thousand such folders available. A collection of African American contributors to science and technology. Also folder contains a list of Black inventors, their inventions, dates of their inventions and patents received.

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