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Since this is a general interest database, articles on African-Americans and the sciences can be found here.

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Has more information about African Americans in the sciences that other databases, which tend to cover how being African American effects things such as disease, single parenthood, etc.

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Access is to 1997 to current. Backfiles available for the Psychology, Business & Management, Biotechnology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, and Earth & Environmental Sciences collections.
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African Americans in Science, Math and Invention by Ray Spangenburg; Kit Moger
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference Q 141 .S6285 2003
ISBN: 9780816048069
Publication Date: 2003-02-01

Search SOUTHcat, ebrary, Springer ebooks, and EBSCO eBook Collection for more books on African Americans and the sciences. These are books the Marx Library owns that could be useful.

Black Firsts: 4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events by Jessie Carney Smith (Editor)
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference E 185 .B574 2003
ISBN: 9781578591534
Publication Date: 2002-12-01
Covers many fields but includes the sciences.
Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science by Betty K. Gubert; Miriam Sawyer; Kate Tuttle; Caroline M. Fannin
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference TL 539 .G83 2002
ISBN: 9781573562461
Publication Date: 2001-10-30
Beating the Odds : raising academically successful African American males by Freeman A. Hrabowski; Kenneth I. Maton; Geoffrey L. Greif
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks Not Checked Out
ISBN: 9780195102192
Publication Date: 1998-04-02
Focuses on math.
Pioneers of Discovery by Richard S. Rennert (Editor); Coretta Scott King (Introduction by)
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks Q 141 .P49 1993
ISBN: 9780791020678
Publication Date: 1993-01-01