Black History Month Collection

This Black History Month the Exploratorium spotlights Black trailblazers in the field of science. Discover brilliant books by Black authors and honor the contributions of Black scientists, innovators, activists, and artists with this special curated collection from the Exploratorium Store.

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Little People, Big Dreams Mae Jemison by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
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Little People, Big Dreams Mae Jemison by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
$ 15.99
A young Katherine Johnson sits on a chair in front of a moon image decorated with different mathematical formulas. The paperback book is blue, with yellow text, and is 11.3" x 9.4".
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
$ 18.99
Leland Melvin is pictured in front of an image of earth from space in his orange space suit with two dogs on his lap; one is licking him.
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Chasing Space by Leland Melvin (Young Readers Edition)
$ 7.99
Yellow and white shuttle rocket launcher.
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Build Your Own NASA Spaceship
$ 35.00
There is a black cotton t-shirt with Dope Black Scientist written across the front in white.
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Dope Black Scientist T-Shirt
$ 25.99
This full deck of cards ( with numbers and suits for actual gameplay) features 26 profiles of women and gender minorities in physics careers—including the Exploratorium's own senior physicist, Desiré Whitmore.
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Across the Spectrum: Women & Gender Minorities in Physics Careers Playing Cards
$ 12.00
The hardcover book in question features an illustration of Charles Henry Turner as a young boy, standing amidst a grassy field with a magnifying glass held up to his eye.
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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
$ 18.99
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This hardcover book features bold black lettering on a white background, adorned with colorful illustrations of various bugs.
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The Big Book of Bugs
$ 19.95
A 16oz pint glass with an image of Alice Ball with chemistry symbols around the outside printed in black. A golden beer fills the clear glass to show contrast against the black printed sections
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Alice Ball Pint Glass
$ 18.95
8" x 8" board book illustrated book cover of the ABCs of Mathematics. Three circles with Addition, Base, and Chord. Red spine with science tools in white .
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ABCs of Mathematics by Chris Ferrie
$ 9.99
A white box with graph paper lines with Math Fluxx and zero through eight filled in with different colors.
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Math Fluxx
$ 20.00
The game's cover is purple with transparent numbers in the background; there is a magician holding a wand on top of a cloud with the words "Proof!" in red.
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Proof!
$ 17.99
It is a paperback book that is 9" x 6". The cover is an illustrated picture of Katherine Johnson, Bessie Coleman, and Mae Jemison. their portraits are in the clouds, and a space shuttle is leaving from the corner.
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Black Women in Science by Kimberly Brown Pellum, PhD
$ 9.99
A paperback book with a green and white cover featuring three prominent scientific men, James McCune Smith, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Rick Kittles.
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Black Men in Science By Bryan Patrick Avery
$ 9.99
It is a blue box with an image of the clip-on microscope attached to a digital device with sample cells sitting on the left side.
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Cells Under a Microscope
$ 34.95
A young girl sitting at a table uses the Zoomy handheld digital microscope to look closer at a lemon. The magnified image of the lemon is on the screen of the child's laptop computer.
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Zoomy Digital Microscope
$ 76.00
This is a paperback book with a yellow cover figured as yellow sunbeams; there are three black inventors profiles in white puffy clouds, George Washington Carver, Bessie Blount Griffin, and Lisa Gelobter.
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Black Inventors: 15 Inventions That Changed the World by Kathy Trusty
$ 9.99
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry is a paperback book. It is 9.1 x 6.1  inches in dimension. The cover is white, with drawings of different space-related planets, satellites, asteroids, and black holes appear on the cover in purple, yellow, red, orange, and blue-green.   
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone
$ 11.95
"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" is a hardcover book. The cover is a photograph of the Milky Way with a person holding a book in silhouette.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$ 18.95
"What Color is My World" has a red cover with radiating lines from t a glowing light bulb. I'm in the middle.
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What Color is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Raymond Obstfeld, Illustrated by Ben Boos and A.G. Ford
$ 17.99
"Ecosystems" is a comic book-style paperback; there is an illustration of the Max Axiom out in nature with different wildlife all around.
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Exploring Ecosystems with Max Axiom by Agnieszka Jòzefina Biskup
$ 7.95
The product is set up with all the different elements in the kit, such as vehicles with wheels, a helicopter, a diving bell, or a boat.
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Intro to Engineering
$ 39.95
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7.1" x 7.1" board book. A illustrated cover of a toddler with his right hand above his head. An arrow  moves down and to the side, depicting the gravitational pull of an apple
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Baby Loves Gravity! by Ruth Spiro
$ 8.99
Illustrated book cover graph paper with red science and invention drawing. A young girl, Ada Twist, and her brother lookout.11.3" x 9.3" hardcover book.
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Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
$ 18.99