Sorors, I need help!!!!

[ChaoticRed]

Between school and work, I haven't had the time to get on here and chat with you ladies, but I need your help.

I am a Program Coordinator for a Science Enrichment program at a middle school, and I have given the teens in the prog the task of researching African American Inventors and Inventions. Little did I know that there is little to no info on blacks who contributed in science in this way b/c we were oftentimes denied the opportunity to get our inventions patented, sooooo guess who stole our ideas and got credit for them

If any of you know of good, resourceful journals, websites, or books we can use PLEASE LET ME KNOW...post here or e mail me ChaoticRed@greekchat.com......Oooo-Ooooop

[mccoyred]

Soror, check out the Delta Spotlight on the national site. A soror is featured in a book about AA female scientists and inventors.

Also try the local AA history museum or AA studies dept at local universities.

I ran across a site about AA inventors but I have to locate it again!

[CrucialCrimson]

There is a lot of information on the Intenet- a basic search on African American Inventors will yield great results with most search engines - while it is true that many of us do not hold patents, there is still a lot of data out there. There are two that we use with our Delta Academy on a regular basis:

www.inventorsmuseum.com/africanam.htm and
www.inventions-express.com

You might also want to check with a local college or university, especially if they have a minority engineering or science office. Those staff people tend to be advocates for the field and have tons of info.

Good Luck!

[blueberi1920]

There's a post in the Zeta Phi Beta forum about this subject, check it out.