The Missing Picture

... of all of those, ...who might have been,

...outstanding contributors to engineering, ...if not for racism.

Racism DOES NOT PAY!

These short profiles are only a snippet of what these people had accomplished.

For more information on any of these inventors, e-mail me at

Other sources:

W.A. Low, V.A. Clift, Encyclopedia of Black America

Glennette T. Turner, Lewis Howard Latimer

McKinley Burt, Black Inventors of America

The Schomburg Library (Harlem, NY)

The Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia branch

The Charles Blockson Collection, Temple Univ.

The Moorland-Spingarn Library, Howard Univ.

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