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Granville T. Woods was a prolific inventor, with over 50 patents.
His most significant patents included multiplexing telegraph wires to allow multiple Morse code conversations and telephone calls over one wire, and safer ways to transfer electricity from wires to train cars.
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Dr. Ernest J. Wilson is an educator and social scientist devoted to soft skills in the digital age.
He founded the Center for Third Space Thinking at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is also a professor of political science, a faculty fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, a board member for the Pacific Council on International Policy and the National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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At a time when American flight schools accepted neither African Americans nor women, Bessie Coleman was the first known African-American to get an international pilot's license. She learned French then moved to Paris, France to get her license directly from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. She continued her studies with the head pilot of Germany's Fokker Corporation.
When she returned to the United States, she made her living as a daredevil pilot in airshows. She would stop at nothing to complete difficult stunts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
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Dr Mark Dean is one of the main geniuses behind the AT bus (which allowed hardware to easily communicate) and the original IBM PC. He was director of IBM’s Austin Research Laboratory, and under his leadership, IBM developed the first 1GHz processor. In 1999, he led the team to create "Blue Gene", the fastest computer at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dean_(computer_scientist)
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Sarah Breedlove was born in 1867, the child of two former slaves. By age seven, she was an orphan. By age 14, she married to escape an abusive brother-in-law.
In her early twenties due to overwork and financial problems, she started losing her hair. She tried many solutions for her hair loss, started selling one made by another black woman entrepreneur, and moved to Denver as a sales agent.
In Denver, she created a better scalp conditioning and healing formula and took on a new name, "Madam C J Walker". She extensively promoted her product through the South and Southeast -- and they sold very well.
Eventually, she built a factory, hair salon, and training school. She gave high commissions to her sales representatives -- but still grew to become one of America's wealthiest citizens.
She fought lynching, became a leader of New York's NAACP, and led by example.
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/madam-cj-walker
Samuel R. Delany is one of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association's Grand Masters, a member of the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and a member of the American Academy of Art and Science.
If you've never read Babel-17, his first Nebula award winner), borrow it from your library. The novel is about language as a literal weapon, rewriting people's minds.
His later work heavily deal with gender, sexual, and racial differences.
