A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience

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Carroll W. Pursell
MIT Press, 2005 - 397 pages
'A Hammer in Their Hands' collects newspaper & magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography & fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, & other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African Americans.
 

Table des matières

COLONIAL ERA
1
New World Skills
7
1792
15
ANTEBELLUM YEARS
21
The New Industrial Age
59
WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND SEGREGATION
91
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
107
Inventors
163
1227
231
Bay Area Council against Discrimination San Francisco 1942
252
After the War
255
THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND
277
Ties to Africa
289
Engineering Careers
301
Accessing the Information Age
339
Technological Troubles
357

BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
179
9
193
VI
221
Neighbors Rally to Fight Proposed WasteBurner 1992
371
Further Readings
385
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