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1 online resource (156 pages)
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9789812777737
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Edward A Bouchet was the first African-American to receive the doctorate in any field of knowledge in the United States and that area was physics. He was granted the degree in 1876 from Yale University making him at that time one of the few persons to hold the physics doctorate from an American university. Bouchet played a significant role in the education of African-Americans during the last quarter of the 19th century through his teaching and mentoring activities at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one among a small number of African-Americans who achieved advanced training and education within decades of the American civil war. These people provided direction, leadership, and role models for what eventually became the civil/human rights movements. The year 2001 marks the 125th celebration of his receiving the doctorate degree. This book gives a summary of his life and career. Contents: Early African American Presence in New Haven and Yale University (C L Patton); Edward A Bouchet - The Years at Hopkins Grammar School: 1868-1870 (T Rodd, Jr.); Edward Alexander Bouchet - The Master Teacher and Educator (H K Bechtel); In Search of Edward Bouchet (J A Wilkinson); African Americans Enter Science (K R Manning); Appendices: Letter from a Former Student of Bouchet (L M Allen); Willie Hobbs Moore: First African American Woman Doctorate in Physics (R E Mickens); Elmer Samuel Imes: Scientist, Inventor, Teacher, Scholar (R E Mickens); The Genesis of the National Society of Black Physicists (R E Mickens); The Bouchet Institute; Selected Bibliography of Materials on African American Scientists. Readership: General.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Early African American Presence in New Haven and Yale University -- The Educated American Black -- The New Haven-Yale Complex: Black People, Church and Events -- Pioneering Americans at Yale -- Before Creed and Before Bouchet -- Bouchet and Yale -- Chapter 2 Edward A. Bouchet - The Years at Hopkins Grammar School: 1868-1870 -- Bibliographical Note -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3 Edward Alexander Bouchet - The Master Teacher and Educator -- Introduction -- Family and Educational Background -- The Philadelphia Years: 1876-1902 -- The Troubled Years: 1902-1918 -- The Promise Denied -- What Might Have Been -- Epilogue -- Photographs -- Chapter 4 In Search of Edward Bouchet -- Chapter 5 African Americans Enter Science -- Appendix A Letter From a Former Student of Bouchet -- Appendix B Willie Hobbs Moore - First African American Woman Doctorate in Physics -- Selected Research Publications -- Appendix C Elmer Samuel Imes - Scientist, Inventor, Teacher, Scholar -- New Field of Scholarship Opened -- An Engineer and Intellect in New York -- The Return to Fisk University -- References -- Collections -- Appendix D The Genesis of the National Society of Black Physicists -- References -- Appendix E The Bouchet Institute -- I. First Edward Bouchet International Conference on Physics and Technology -- II. First Bouchet Council Meeting -- III. The Constitution for the Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salam Institute -- Appendix F Selected Bibliography of Materials On African American Scientists -- The Authors -- H. Kenneth Bechtel -- Kenneth R. Manning -- Ronald E. Mickens -- Curtis L. Patton -- Thomas Rodd, Jr. -- John A. Wilkinson.
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ISBN 9789810249090
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789810249090
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