Lesson Of The Day: More Black Facts & Tidbits...

Keeping It Real: In 1897, African-American inventor Alfred Cralle patented the first ice cream scoop. His original design remains in wide use, even today. 

George T. Sampson invented a clothes dryer that used heat from a stove in 1892. 

Nathaniel Alexander was the first to patent the folding chair. His invention was designed to be used in schools, churches and at large social gatherings. 

George Carruthers invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, used in the 1972 Apollo 16 mission. This invention revealed new features in Earth's far-outer atmosphere and deep-space objects from the perspective of the lunar surface. Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2003. 

African-American inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan created the gas mask—then became renowned for using his mask to save workers trapped in a toxic fume-filled tunnel. He also invented, among many other things, a three-way automatic stop sign, which he sold to General Electric. It was used in the U.S. until the three-light traffic sign was developed.

Lesson Of The Day: Black Fact

Keeping It Real: African-American history is not just for the books! Most people live it everyday, thanks in part to Black visionaries and trailblazers in the arts, medicine & politics who intentionally and sometimes accidentally invented, created, discovered or dared to do something for their times which lives on in OURS & still impact us today!! Ya Dig?... 

Lesson Of The Day: More Black Facts & Tidbits..

Keeping It Real: Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of The Color Purple, was born in Eatonton, GA, on Feb. 9th in 1944.

Architect Paul Williams mastered the art of drawing upside down so that he could sit across from — not next to — white clients who didn’t want to sit side-by-side with a black person. 

Nelson R. Mandela, South Africa's Black nationalist leader, was released from prison after 27 years on Feb. 11th in 1990. Four years after his release, he was elected President of South Africa.

The NAACP was founded Feb. 12th in 1909 after riots in Springfield, IL. With W.E.B Du Bois as one of its chief organizers, the group originally fought to abolish forced segregation and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Lawyer Macon Bolling Allen was the first black American Justice of the Peace and the first African-American licensed to practice law in the U.S. 

Frederick Augustus Douglass, orator, activist and abolitionist , was born a slave in Tuckahoe, MD, on Feb. 14th in 1817. Douglass was commemorated on a US postage stamp issued on his birthday 150 years later.


and the list goes on and on and on....Ya Dig?..