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Exhibits Guide to Bizzell Library Special Collections: Black History Month (Feb 2019)

A guide to recent exhibits featuring books from the Special Collections in Bizzell Library at OU

Books Featured in Black History Month Lobby Displays (Feb 2019)

African American Women Chemists by Jeannette E. Brown
Publication Date: 2011
Black Apollo of Science by Kenneth R. Manning
Publication Date: 1985
Contributions of African American Scientists to the Fields of Science, Medicine, and Inventions by Robert B. Sanders
Publication Date: 2009
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Publication Date: 2016
The History of Black Business in America
Publication Date: 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Publication Date: 2011
Medical Apartheid:: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Harriet A. Washington
Publication Date: 2007

Book Display in Reading Nook for Black History Month 2019

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks & Medical Apartheid

A Glimpse at Books held in the Special Collections

Browse here for more selections on books on race and the history of science

BHM Book Display in Reading Nook

Select Primary Sources

Amanda Smith, An Autobiography (1893) Nichols Collection

Robert Roberts, The House Servant's Directory (1827) Bass Business History Collection

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