"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
Can you imagine a life without blood banks, traffic lights, security systems, cloth dryers, and automatic elevator doors? These remarkable creations and a lot more wouldn’t exist today if it…
In 1916, 32 men were trapped in a mine near Lake Erie. Garrett Morgan saw an opportunity to prove his fireproof hood worked – and went in to rescue them.
Elijah McCoy, a notable name in Black History, was a Canadian-American inventor born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, on May 2, 1844, to George and Mildred McCoy, who had fled slavery…
Garrett Augustus Morgan is a prominent part of Black History. On March 4, 1877, Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky, to formerly enslaved persons and farmers Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan.…