Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Percy_Julian

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Dumain
You must have seen that documentary on Julian on PBS the other night. Wasn't that a trip? I thought I knew my black history, but I never heard of this guy. Maybe Edward Everett Just is next? At 02:31 PM 2/9/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Percy Lavon

[Marxism-Thaxis] Percy_Julian

2007-02-09 Thread Charles Brown
__ You must have seen that documentary on Julian on PBS the other night. Wasn't that a trip? I thought I knew my black history, but I never heard of this guy. Maybe Edward Everett Just is next? ^ Yes, I caught a bit of it. I had heard the name vaguely , but I didn't know

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Percy_Julian

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Dumain
I misremembered his first name: Ernest Everett Just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Everett_Just I think he was an embryologist. A building is named after him at Howard U. A bio, Black Apollo of Science, was written about him in the '80s by Kenneth Manning, whom I saw at a conference in