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Little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century

On a cool autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man walked into St. He was walking back and forth among the pine oaks, magnolias, and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After placing a dozen plates filled with strawberry jam on several picnic tables, biologist Charles Henry Turner retreated… Read More »