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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Mary Winston Jackson (April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS James Edward Maceo West (born February 10, 1931 in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia) is an American inventor and […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) is a Black American inventor and computer engineer. If you ever owned the original IBM personal […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an entrepreneur and inventor. She was the first African-American woman to […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Meredith Charles “Flash” Gourdine (September 26, 1929, Newark, New Jersey – November 20, 1998, Houston) was an American athlete, engineer and physicist.  Gourdine graduated from Brooklyn […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Henry Blair (1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a patent. He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Otis Frank Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American inventor and engineer. His […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an African-American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Andrew Jackson Beard (1849–1921) was an African-American inventor. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio for his work on a […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Jan Ernst Matzeliger (September 15, 1852 – August 24, 1889) was a revolutionary in the shoe industry with the invention […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Sarah Boone (1832–1904) was an African American inventor who on April 26, 1892, obtained United States patent rights for her improvements to the ironing board. […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Granville Tailer Woods – (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents. He is […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Marie Van Brittan Brown – (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999) was an African-American inventor, becoming the originator […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. – (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an inventor and community leader. He […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS Sarah Breedlove – (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, […]

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS George Washington Carver – (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanist and inventor. He became well-known to the public due […]