John Albert Burr
John Albert Burr invented one of the first rotary blade lawn mowers; 1899.
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Treshelle M. Edmond
Treshelle M. Edmond is the first and only deaf woman of color to headline a Broadway production twice.
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Rue Mapp is the founder of Outdoor Afro.
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Frederick McKinley Jones invented the refrigerator and a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food in 1940.
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Kimberly Bryant founder Black Girls Code.
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Emmett Louis Till was born 7/25/41 in Chicago, IL. He was visiting in Mississippi when he was 14 years old and was lynched, kidnapped, beaten, mutalated, shot in the head, and his body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River. Two men were acquitted of his kidnapping and murder and later they admitted to the crime.
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Brittany Packnett is an activist, educator, writer, and author. She founded Love + Power a “hub created to inspire, empower, and outfit everyday people to seismically shift society”. She co-founded Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence.
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Lester Holt was the 1st black solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast, NBC Nightly News, 2015.
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Beyoncé became the second woman and first black woman artist to win an ASCAP award for Pop Songwriter of the year; 2001.
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Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. became the first black person to be trained as an astronaut; 1967.
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