Black Inventors A-Z

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A

George Alcorn Nathaniel Alexander	Virgie Ammons
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B

Benjamin Banneker Patricia Bath Andrew Jackson Beard Miriam E. Benjamin Edmond Berger Henry Blair Bessie Blount

Sarah Boone Otis Boykin Charles Brooks Phil Brooks Henry Brown Marie Brown John Albert Burr

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C

George Washington Carver George Carruthers Benjamin S. Carson Emmett W. Chappelle

John Christian Donald Cotton David Crosthwait

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D

Mark Dean Ronald Demon Joseph Hunter Dickinson	Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus Dr. Charles Richard Drew
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E

Thomas Elkins

Philip Emeagwali

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F

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G

Sarah E. Goode Meredith C. Gourdine	George Grant
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H

Lloyd Augustus Hall

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I-K

Augustus Jackson Thomas L. Jennings Jack Johnson Lonnie Johnson Willis Johnson	Frederick Jones Marjorie Stewart Joyner Percy Lavon Julian Ernest Everett Just Roscoe Koontz
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L

Lewis Howard Latimer Joseph Lee

John Lee Love

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M

Jan Ernst Matzeliger Elijah McCoy Alexander Miles	Ruth Miro Garrett Morgan
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N

Lyda Newman

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O

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P-Q

Alice Parker Traverse Benjamin Pinn	Willam Purvis
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R

Lloyd P Ray Cordell Reed

Louis Roberts Norbert Rillieux

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S

Walter Sammons Henry Sampson Jerry Shelby Richard Spikes

John Standard Thomas Stewart Rufus Stokes

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T

Lewis Temple Valerie Thomas	John Henry Thompson
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U-V

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W-Z

Madame Walker James Edward West John Thomas White Doctor Daniel Hale Williams

Paul E. Williams Joseph Winters Granville Woods Kevin Woolfolk

More Resources on Black Inventors
Black Inventors - Database
An extensive list of black inventors holding patents listed by name, patent number, and date - hundreds of black inventors listed, however, without the biographical information of the listings above.

Colors of Innovation - Black Inventors - Written For Students
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The Origins of Black History Month
What we now call Black History Month was originated in 1926 by Carter Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week.

Black Inventors Trivia Quiz
Test your knowledge about black inventors history with this trivia quiz.
 

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