A Struggle Worthy of Note The Engineering and Technological Education of Black Americans

Subjects:

• Education » Multicultural Education
• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies
• Science » Scientific Technology

Reviews:

• Wharton's short but excellent eye-opener fills a void in the documentation of the struggle waged by African Americans to obtain an equal education in a predominantly white American society.
  —Choice

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preface
• Inventors and Tinkers
• The Washington/Du Bois Debate
• Educational Opportunity and the Development of Black Institutions
• Three Black Engineers
• The Era of the Brown Decision and Sputnik
• The Sixties
• The Seventies
• The Eighties
• Conclusions and Implications
• Appendixes
• Bibliography
• Index