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Part of a series for 10-year-olds and upwards, which presents American history through the lives of its most influential and significant figures, this book covers the contribution of eight black scientists to science and technology and offers a detailed biography on the life of each of them.

Who Invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made? Cats? What if I told you there was ONE answer to all of these questions? That one answer? BLACK PEOPLE! Seriously. And this book is like a mini-encyclopedia, full of more evidence than WikiLeaks and just as eye-opening! Do you know just how much Black inventors and creators have given to modern society? Within the past 200 years, Black Americans have drawn on a timeless well of inner genius to innovate and engineer the design of the world we live in today. But what of all the Black history before then?

A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the world, curated by food activist and author of Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry. , Black Food tells a global story of creativity, endurance, and imagination that was sustained in the face of dispersal, displacement, and oppression.

Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social and cultural influences as well as the adaptations blacks made to the conditions of slavery and freedom in the Americas.

Organizes by calender year traditional recipes of African Americans before the civil rights movement, and includes historical notes, tributes to significant figures, and anecdotes.