Hidden No More: Week 18 round-up
…his occupation as “photographer.” He later had a successful studio in Washington, D.C., and photographed many noted African Americans, including Charles Drew and Madam C. J. Walker. Valerie L. Thomas,…
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Hidden No More: Week 17 round-up
…$40,000. Onesimus, Medical Advisor Onesimus, an enslaved African in Boston, explained that being inoculated with smallpox gave protection from the disease. He had observed this in Africa. His information proved…
Hidden No More: Week 16 round-up
…her student at West Virginia State College’s laboratory high school, remembered her as “a wonderful teacher.” Flemmie Kittrell, Nutritionist & Educator In 1936, Kittrell became the first African American woman…
Hidden No More: Week 14 round-up
…is the first African American involved in discovering an element. Charles Harrison, Industrial Designer Harrison was responsible for designing 100s of products sold by Sears. The first plastic trash bin…
Hidden No More: Week 13 round-up
…site that he and a fellow student made was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 1891. Bettye Washington Greene, Industrial Research Chemist When Greene joined Dow Chemical Company…
Hidden No More: Week 12 round-up
…of her long career. When she died at age 74, she was leading a team researching termites in the West Indies. Elbert Frank Cox, Mathematician Cox graduated from Cornell in…
Hidden No More: Week 11 round-up
…Yale in 1876, the first time any American university conferred a doctorate on an African American. He went on to teach at Philadelphia’s Institute for Colored Youth for 26 years….
Hidden No More: Week 9 round-up
…nutritious foods in the American South. Norbert Rillieux In 1843, Rillieux received a patent for an improved method of refining sugar. His innovation transformed the sugar industry. It is still…
Hidden No More: Week 7 round-up
Thomas L. Jennings Jennings, a tailor, was the first African American known to receive a U.S. patent. In 1821, he was granted patent no. 3,306x for “dry scouring,” a precursor…
Hidden No More: Week 6 round-up
Henry E. Baker Baker was an examiner in the U.S. Patent Office. In the early 1900s, he conducted a national search to learn which patents had been granted to African Americans…