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| First African-American World Heavyweight champion-1908-1915 |
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| First African-American US Supreme Court Justice 1967-1991 |
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| Developed 300 derivative products from peanuts |
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Famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Dream Deferred
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| First African-American elected to US Senate (MS 1870-1871) |
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First African-American woman elected to US House of Representatives(Congress)1968NY
First African-American candidate for president and first female |
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| First African-American Woman Academy Award Winner(Gone With the Wind) 1940 |
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First African-American to go into space(Endeavor)
coinvestigator on a bone cell experiment |
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
founded February 12, 1909 |
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President and CEO of Urban League of Hudson County
founded 1972
253 ML King Drive
Empowering Communities.
Changing Lives.
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| History of Black America began when a ship 20 blacks landed here |
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| First Black Rhodes Scholar |
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First African-American to receive a US patent (Seed Planter-1834)*
* Other Sources indicate Thomas Jennings received a patent 1821 dry cleaning process |
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| The Free(D)men's Savings Bank |
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| First bank operated for Blacks |
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| First Black newspaper (1827) |
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| Lt.Governor Louisiana Born a slave 1826 operated an empoyment service for former slaves |
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| He was civil rights attorney. |
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| created a strong box which allowed people to store important papers at home. |
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| Invented a gong and single chair for hotels. |
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| Created the "Jenny Coupler" which revolutionized the train industry |
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| created the ''jenny coupler'' which revolutionized the train industry. |
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| Developed a truck with brushes to clean debris from city street, the precurisor to the modern street-sweeper |
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| Created numerous devices for personal computer architecture and helped revolutionize the computer industry |
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| Made the life of furniture easier by creating the "joiners clamp" and a furniture caster |
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| Improved upon gridiron designs to create metal oven tracks |
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| A harvard-trained dentist, he invented several items, most famous of which was improved golf free |
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| Created refrigerated appartaus for keeping perishable foods as well as a chamber commode |
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| Revolutionized the world of food preservation and developed numerous processes for eliminating germs and bacteria from foods, utensils and tools |
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| Created a street letter box for postal customers and later patented an electrical switch for railroads |
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| Invented several small and inexpensive resistors and developed a control unit for the peacemaker. |
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| The first black woman to gain a patent for her folding cabinet bed |
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| Revolutionized the sail-making business while integrating the workforce |
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| A rocket scientist, he created one of the favorite toys of the 1900's- the "super soaker" |
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| Pioneered the fields of the marine biology and zoology |
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| Created a ventilated shoe to help minimize excessive sweating as well as the prevention of blisters and sores on people's feet |
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| Invented several small and inexpensive resistors and developed a control unit for the peacemaker. |
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