Pursell, Carroll. <br/><br/>
A Hammer in Their Hands :  A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (416 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Introduction -- I COLONIAL ERA -- 1 African Medicine in the New World -- 2 New World Skills -- II ANTEBELLUM YEARS -- 3 The Persistence of Craft -- 4 The New Industrial Age -- III WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, AND SEGREGATION -- 5 Finding a Place in the Industrial Age -- IV THE PROGRESSIVE ERA -- 6 Training for the Industrial Age -- 7 Inventors -- V BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS -- 8 The Rural South -- 9 Industrial Employment -- 10 The Automobile -- VI World War II and the Cold War -- 11 Learning to Fly -- 12 War Work -- 13 After the War -- VII THE MOVEMENT AND BEYOND -- 14 Setting a Political Agenda -- 15 Ties to Africa -- 16 Engineering Careers -- 17 Accessing the Information Age -- 18 Technological Troubles -- Further Readings -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262281959 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technology-United States-History.<br/>Technology-Social aspects-United States-History.<br/>African Americans-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T21.H38 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>608.9/96/073