George Washington Carver and Madame C. J. Walker are names at the top of virtually every black inventors list, but how about fellow creators such as James E. West and Frederick McKinley Jones?
They’re lesser-known names that basketball legend-turned-author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set out to highlight in his book What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors.
The pictorial account, illustrated by Ben Boos & A.G. Ford, and aimed at middle-school kids, takes a look at parts of U.S. history that often go ignored, an omission that Abdul-Jabbar says leads many African-American children to think that they can only succeed in two areas: sports and entertainment, the New York Daily News reports.
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