Scientist and strategist, 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.

subjects: African American scientists,  African American women physicists,  African Americans,  African Americans with disabilities,  Biography,  Juvenile literature,  Patients,  People with disabilities,  Physicists,  Poliomyelitis,  Women scientists

People: June Rooks

Places: United States