"Provides detailed information on the events leading up to and taking place during the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the struggle for the control of Vietnam. Includes source notes and timeline."
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Introduces readers to the scientist, inventor, and professor who was the orphan son of slaves yet went on to become a symbol of African-American success and interracial harmony, and whose groundbreaki
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