Black History Facts

Celebrating Willa Brown, first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot's license (1938) and a commercial license (1939)...

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Celebrating prolific inventor Richard Bowie Spikes who invented the automatic gear shift for cars and turn signals...

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Celebrating George Crum inventor of potato chips...

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Celebrating Dr. Patricia Cowins the first American woman to receive scientist astronaut training...

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Celebrating inventor Valerie L. Thomas, a scientist and researcher for NASA who holds the patent for the illusion transmitter that produced 3D images...

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Celebrating physicist, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the first Black woman to earn a PhD from MIT and the inventor of touch-tone dialing, caller ID, and call waiting...

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Celebrating engineer Dr. Marian Croak, who earned a PhD in quantitative analysis, is the holder of over 200 patents and the inventor of the Voice over Internet Protocol [VoIP] that allows you to make phone calls over the Internet...

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Celebrating the late engineer, Gerald Lawson, inventor of the first video game cartridge...

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Celebrating unsung hero, inventor Mary Kenner, who secured five patents in her lifetime, the most of any Black woman at the time...

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Celebrating the late Dr. Patricia Bath, the first Black woman to receive a medical patent and the inventor of laser cataract surgery...

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Celebrating engineer and inventor Lanney Smoot...

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Celebrating physicist, Dr. Hadiyah Green, who developed a method to eliminate cancer cells, while avoiding healthy cells, using nanoparticles....

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Celebrating The Safe Bus Company, founded by 13 Black men Winston-Salem, NC...

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Celebrating Freedom House Ambulance Service, the prototype for today's emergency medical services ...

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Discussing the history of the United States flooding Black towns to create man-made lakes..

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Discussing the how The Freedman's Savings Bank stole millions of dollars from formerly enslaved people...

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Discussing the systemic destruction of thriving Black neighborhoods...

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Discussing how Black soldiers were excluded from receiving benefits from the GI Bill after fighting in World War II...

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Celebrating Maria P. Thurston Williams the first Black woman film producer, an author, a newspaper editor, a teacher and a philanthropist....

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Celebrating engineer Bob Shurney, who designed and engineered the wheels on NASA's first lunar rover and the zero gravity toilet that is still used in space stations today...