Facts Worth Knowing

 Everyone wants to know what my ancestors contributed because in a way that saying uh...I am an important by heritage but when that heritage isn't known

then obviously huge portion of yourself and it goes down the drain

and that's why it it so important that i believe

you know to to take that young secure a ploy by the hand

and walk down the street

and give them a black history lesson and point to issue since it was young months

later a black man who has been a condemnation lasting machine

he steps in that clean street Newtown it was Charles Brooks a black man who

invented to street sweeper discussions with the pic precious and down the

street comes one of those big refrigerated tractor trailer trucks

economist Richard Jones a black man who invented figuration system crystal clear

doctor for airplanes boats and trains that comes to a stop at the red light

you tell us Gary Morgan a black man who invented the traffic signal we can tell

holly on something that they cast mastered save lots lunch in the war who

want to talk about the war handed over a period but one hundred ten working

Nikon school lunch for people's consultants

and while you're talking about black women you can talk about Nancy J Walker

black power movement in the cosmetic products for women at their complexion

was the first

woman of any nationality united states who become millionaires to her on their

first

and you walk past a

the hospital you can talk about china's troop

his contributions to plug thinking that i understand but perhaps not

Daniel Heller Williams the first successful open-heart surgery

morals an operative mortality rate of only one point five percent

uh... you can talk about

uh... Lewis Lapham

who was the right-hand man

of uh... Thomas Edison a black man

who came up with the filament coming to light bulb work for more than two or

three days

who invented the electric went

get pioneering work in incandescent fluorescent lighting

who diagram a telephone for Alexander graham bell tremendous inventor and in

some right

almost no one knows them

you can walk across the railroad tracks apart but Andrew beard Tiananmen Rokahr

company which bird on the industrial revolution or Elijah Mccoy dominate

lubrication system for locomotive engines

and he had so many great inventions people say that I'm of course is that

the real Mccoy which is where the time comes from one of the greatest invention

centers in the history of Maine

and people don't know

at his apartment

and uh... you know

gets how you remedy the situation