Profiles African American men and women who have succeeded in fields such as politics, medicine, law, science, education, art, sports, business, and the military.
Contents
Caroline Virginia Anderson: physician -- Russell L. Anderson: physician -- Rebecca Lee Crumpler: pioneering medical doctor -- Charles R. Drew: physician -- George Cleveland Hall: physician -- William Augustus Hinton: physician -- Mae Carol Jemison: physician -- Theodore K. Lawless: dermatologist -- Mary Eliza Mahoney: pioneer in nursing -- Alvin Poussaint: psychiatrist -- Mabel Keaton Staupers: nurse -- Adah Belle Samuels Thoms: nursing pioneer -- Daniel Hale Williams: surgeon -- Louis T. Wright: physician.
