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| Clockwise from top left: Benjamin Banneker, Madame C.J. Walker, George Washington Carver, Dr. Shirley Jackson, and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. |
There are so many things that we take for granted. We eat our potato chips, drive safely on roads thanks to traffic lights, eat food that has been transported long distances in refrigerated trucks, travel in elevators, and turn on our home security systems without once thinking about the men and women who thought up these inventions. Every single one of these innovations came into the world because of the genius of an African American inventor. Indeed, so many of the things that we use every day were invented by African American inventors whom we have never even heard of.
There are a few books on the subject that you might looking at:
African American Inventors by Otha Richard Sullivan
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Raymond Obstfeld and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
