This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his time to earn a Ph.D. [6:13]

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• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)