Percy Lavon Julian, a young, Black scientist working in Jim Crow America ... derived compounds—research that would later be recognized with a knighthood and a Nobel Prize. So it was a surprise to some ...

Born the grandson of Alabama slaves during segregation in 1899 and facing a lifetime of personal and professional challenges, Percy Lavon Julian nevertheless went on to become one of the 20th ...

Just before the turn of the century, Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a bright student, but at that time the city provided no public education for black students after ...