Lyda Newman held the first patent for an improved hairbrush design in New York City in 1898.  

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Jesse Russell was the first person hired from an HBCU by AT&T Bell Laboratories, today known as Bell Labs. First black person in the United States to be selected as the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year in 1980.

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Freedmen’s Hospital was established in Washington, D.C., as the only federally-funded health care facility for Blacks in the nation in 1863.

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Dr. Helen O. Dickens was the first black woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons in 1950.

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Dr. Peter Murray Marshall was the President of the New York County Medical Society, becoming the first black to lead a unit of the American Medical Association in 1954.

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Dr. Meta L. Christy, a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, was the world’s first black osteopathic physician in 1921.

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Robert Tanner Freeman was the first black to receive an education in dentistry and a dental degree from an American medical school, Harvard University School of Dental Medicine; 1867.

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Dr. David Jones Peck was the first black medical student to graduate from a medical school in the United States, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL; 1947.

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John Albert Burr invented one of the first rotary blade lawn mowers; 1899.

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Treshelle M. Edmond is the first and only deaf woman of color to headline a Broadway production twice.

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