Scientist and strategist, June Rooks
By: by Mary Ellen Verheyden-Hilliard ; drawings by Holly Meeker Rom.
Contributors: Rom, Holly Meeker, ill.
Series: An American women in science biography
Publisher: Equity Institute
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Rooks, June -- Juvenile literature.; Rooks, June.; African American women physicists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Women scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; African American scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Physicists.; Women scientists.; African Americans -- Biography.; People with disabilities; African Americans with disabilities -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography; Biography.
Other titles: June Rooks.
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.