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African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
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First African-American woman to receive a United States patent. Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), U.S. – vulcanization of rubber; Praveen Kumar Gorakavi (born 1989), India – low-cost Braille Typewriter; Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
Charles Drew's 1922 Dunbar High School yearbook entry. Drew was born in 1904 into an African-American middle-class family in Washington, D.C. [3] His father, Richard, was a carpet layer [4] and his mother, Nora Burrell, trained as a teacher. [5]
Harriet Powers, (1837–1910), African American slave quilt artist; Robert Poydasheff, mayor of Columbus, Georgia; Alex Poythress (born 1993), American-Ivorian basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier Basketball League; Carrie Preston, actress; Kazimierz PuĊaski, nobleman; born in Poland; died in Savannah; Shannon Purser ...