by Verlie S | Aug 2, 2019 | History
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was opened on September 24, 2016. It is one of several Smithsonian museums, though what makes this museum so unique is that it is exclusively dedicated to African American history,...
by Verlie S | Aug 1, 2019 | History
Black history has been portrayed in many art forms whether that be through spoken word, cuisine, dance, music, poems and sculptures. Across the world, sculptures were erected to serve as a testament of not only the suffering that enslaved black people have endured but...
by Verlie S | Jul 29, 2019 | History
In 1886, The Statue of Liberty was a symbol of democratic government and Enlightenment standards as a celebration of the Union’s triumph in the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. Eduardo de Laboulaye, the French political mastermind, U.S....
by Verlie S | Jul 26, 2019 | History
Leonard Bailey was an African American innovator and businessman in Washington, DC, during the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in 1825 with a physical inability to an impoverished free black family. However, through his business adventures and ambitious...
by Verlie S | Jul 25, 2019 | History
Ellen Eglin was an African American woman who invented the mechanical clothes wringer. Back then, people did not have a lot of options to wash clothes. The device had two rollers constructed in a frame and these were connected to a crank. These rollers had two wooden...
by Verlie S | Jul 24, 2019 | History
Charles Baker was an African American inventor born in Savannah, Missouri on August 3, 1859. His parents were Abraham Baker and Betsy Mackay Baker. Sadly, his mother died before Baker’s first birthday, so he was brought up by his father and the wife of the plantation...
by Verlie S | Jul 23, 2019 | History
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner, a black inventor, was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1912. She started inventing while still in her childhood, and she holds more patents than any other African American woman in history. Schooling Mary Kenner went to Dunbar High...
by Verlie S | Jul 22, 2019 | History
Lewis Temple, a black inventor, impacted the whaling industry with his whaling harpoon invention in the 19th century. He was an accomplished blacksmith, and in 1836 he became one of 315,000 African American freedmen in the United States. Temple thrived in business,...
by Verlie S | Jul 19, 2019 | History
Bessie Blount Griffin is best remembered for her 1951 invention of an electronic device that helped amputees feed themselves. The device was meant to assist solders injured fighting in World War II (WWII) from 1939 to 1945. WWII involved the alignment of the major...
by Verlie S | Jul 18, 2019 | History
Miriam Benjamin was an African American schoolteacher and inventor born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1861. Her parents were Francis Benjamin (a Jewish man) and Eliza Benjamin (an African American woman); she was also the eldest of six siblings. Her siblings were,...
