Type "African American inventors" into Google and see what you find. Or "Famous African Americans." Or even "Black History Month."
I hope you aren't saying that you are unable to think of one African American who has made history or made something. I'm hoping that what you meant was that you were looking for someone who isn't as well-known as say, Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks or George Washington Carver or Michael Jordan or Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell, or....need I go on?
(To the person who mentioned Eli Whitney, I'm pretty sure he wasn't black.)
2007-01-13 07:02:29
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answered by Ms.ADJ 2
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Toni Morrison was the first black person ever to win a Noble Peace prize in literature. She is also the second American woman to do so.
Dorie Miller is one of the first heroes of WWII
Althea Gibson is the first black woman ever to win a woman's singles title in the French Open
Wilma G. Rudolph is the first American WOMAN to win three gold medals in track and field in a single Olympics.
George Washington Carver was an agricultural chemist who made over 300 products from the peanut plant
Andrew Young was the first black man to serve as a U.S. Ambassador to the UN
Garrett A. Morgan invented the traffic lights (the very traffic lights we use to this day, it was NOT invented by a caucasian...)
2007-01-14 06:02:41
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answered by newssavvydiva87 2
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Martin Luther King Jr.
2007-01-13 06:29:48
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answered by K-Deeznuts 4
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Are you severe black human beings have been right here longer than very virtually the different minority communities that's why!!! the comparable reason white human beings are everywhere and function all there companies, Are you adult males segregating your self?? No!! you have completed alot of objectives and now black human beings are as properly. we've our own shows, our own each thing and we labored in basic terms as tricky if not greater solid to get it!!! Now different races are doing the comparable. We whine!! What are you all doing on right here!!!! everywhere i circulate I see different cultures making lives from themselves over right here yet black human beings have been right here knowledgeable ourselves that's why there are this style of superb form of black colleges, getting sturdy job, commencing companies, courses, and businesses. now and returned it style of feels like Racist human beings are mad that we've made a fashion for ourselves and are available this some distance. properly wager what end your whining and get used to it.
2016-12-12 10:38:11
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answered by ? 4
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I find the life of Vivien Thomas fascinating. He was a lab assistant to a famous heart surgeon who really should have been a surgeon himself. His talent and insight helped to propel the Doctor he worked for to worldwide fame and recognition.
2007-01-13 09:56:27
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answered by babydoll 7
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I know that next Monday should be Rosa Parks day in memory of all those who sacrificed for freedom. And not for someone who just used the movement for his own agenda
2007-01-13 06:33:24
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answered by idahomike2 6
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Eli Whitney made the cotton gin
You say they have to have made something - if it doesn't have to be something tangible I'd suggest belle hooks (lowercase = sic) and Sojourner Truth
2007-01-13 06:30:45
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answered by JJJJJJJJim 3
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