
Scientist and strategist, June Rooks
By Mary Ellen Verheyden-Hilliard
Subjects: Juvenile literature, People with disabilities, Poliomyelitis, Biography, Patients, African Americans, African Americans with disabilities, African American scientists, African American women physicists, Physicists, Women scientists
Description: A brief, illustrated biography of June Rooks, a black woman who contracted polio as a child, struggled against poverty, earned her degree in physics, and went on to become an Operations Research Analyst with the United States Navy.
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