print email comment close African American Inventors URL: http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/afinvent.htm Description: Brief annotated bibliography about African American inventors, covering general reference books, films and video, and works on specific individuals, including Benjamin Banneker (surveyor, astronomer, and inventor) and James Forten (abolitionist and maritime innovator). From Encyclopedia Smithsonian, a website of the Smithsonian Institution. Publisher: Smithsonian Information Extra Keywords black LII Database Information: Record 24769 created by Jennifer English on 10/22/2007 Last modification on 10/31/2007 Published: 11/01/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24769