From Sharecropper to Scientist: The Memoir of Thomas Wyatt Turner, Ph.D. (1877-1978)
Publisher: Marilyn Wenzke Nickels; Independently published
Published: July 29, 2018
Place of publication: USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
Copyright date: 2018
Notes: From the back cover:
"Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978), born the son of sharecroppers, became the first African American to earn the Ph.D. degree in botany in the United States.  As a scientist and educator, Turner fervently believed that African American students, regardless of background and future occupation, should be grounded in science and mathematics to succeed in the technological future of the 20th century.  He made science relevant and practical in the classroom with experimental methods and real life applications that convinced his high school and college students of their ability, male and female, to master these disciplines.  Turner was a STEM educator 100 years ahead of his time.

From boyhood dreams, struggles and sometimes humorous tales in Southern Maryland, the story moves to early student days at Howard University, then teaching at Tuskegee Institute, as well as Baltimore and St. Louis segregated high schools.  Turner returns to Howard as a professor and early member of the NAACP, then moves to Hampton Institute as it struggles to become a four-year institution.  His wide ranging professional collaboration with other African American scientists, as well as renowned academics in the United States and Europe, provided his students with a model of teamwork so critical in today's world.  At the same time, the memoir reflects his own strong views on the institutions, colleagues and issues of his educational and racial environment."
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
title: VII; label: Editor's Introduction
title: IX; label: About the Original Documents
title: ix; label: The Editing Process
title: xi; label: Preface
title: 1; label: Consilio et Animis
title: 3; label: On My Own
title: 20; label: The College Discovered
title: 32; label: A Student at Howard University
title: 37; label: Landing a Job
title: 64; label: Teaching at Tuskegee
title: 71; label: The First Negro Faculty
title: 87; label: Back to Baltimore
title: 104; label: My Ten Years at Howard
title: 108; label: Back to the Campus
title: 121; label: General View of the Trip
title: 127; label: Activities at Hampton Institute
title: 138; label: Career During World War II and Afterward
title: 185; label: Appendix A
title: 189; label: In School-days
title: 189; label: Appendix B
title: 190; label: Reflections: The Debate over Industrial Education
title: 190; label: Appendix C
title: 195; label: Turner's Reflections on Mordecai Johnson
title: 195; label: Appendix D
title: 197; label: Howard University and Hampton University Presidents
title: 197; label: Bibliography
title: 199; label: Books
title: 199; label: Reference Works
title: 202; label: Journal Articles
title: 203; label: Manuscripts and Archival Materials
title: 204; label: Websites
title: 205; label: Interviews
title: 206; label: Endnotes
title: 207