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Marie Van Brittan Brown was an American nurse and innovator. In 1966, she invented a video home security system along

Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a type of

Frederick McKinley Jones was a black inventor who helped to revolutionize both the cinema and refrigeration industries.  Between 1919 and

Jesse Binga’s rise from relative poverty to become the wealthiest African American entrepreneur and banker in Chicago in the late

Following the business example of her father, industrious former sharecropper Chaptle Morgan, Rose Morgan began making artificial flowers and convincing

In 1905, Robert S. Abbott founded The Chicago Defender with 25 cents and a press run of 300 copies. The

Charles Clinton Spaulding served as president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the largest black-owned insurance company in

Born into slavery in 1865, Anthony Overton became a leading African American entrepreneur during the twentieth century with the establishment

Mitchell worked as a delivery woman and babysitter while attending segregated public schools in Richmond. Nonetheless Mitchell graduated at the

A.J. Smitherman had established himself as one of the leading lights of the African-American community. The founder and publisher of