Fratt brothers merchandise

Without the successful theoretical physics experiments conducted by Dr. Shirley Jackson items like the fax machine; touch-tone phone;caller I’d and call waiting may have never been invented

Also called Juneteenth National Independence Day; Jubilee Day; Emancipation Day(Texas); Freedom Day; Black Independence Day

Joseph H. Smith improved the sprinkler system by making the water shoot in multiple directions

The mind behind blood transfusions, blood banks and blood mobiles.Dr. Charles R. Drew

Frederick McKinley Jones is the reason why we have unspoiled food delivered to our grocery stores from anywhere in the world

Dr. George Grant invented the golf tee. What was used prior to this was a mound of sand to hold the golf ball

I invented this at my restaurant after a customer complained my fries weren’t crispy enough. My name is George “Crum” Speck

“A race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots.”-Charles C. Siefert

My name is Jane Bolin. I am the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and serve as a judge in the United States

In 1960, at the very young age of 6 Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to integrate an all white elementary school in the South

Shirley Chisholm is the first African American woman to be elected to Congress. She also was the first black and female to run for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination

In 1939 Ethel Waters became the first African American to star in her own television show

Medgar Wiley Evers in 1954, pioneer of the civil rights movement

Benjamin O. Davis first commander of the 99th Fighter Squadron aka Red Tails aka Tuskegee Airmen. I was the first African American to serve as a general in the United States Army

Bessie Coleman was the first African American and Native American to get her pilots license from France in 1921. She is also the first black person to have earned an international pilots license

Homestead Grays 1946 photo taken in Yankee Stadium. Negro Leagues hall of famers

Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting and womens rights activist. She was the co- founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party and is responsible for helping and encouraging thousands of African Americans in Mississippi to become registered voters.The phrase, “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired” was coined by her and sadly her life

Yes… That was stolen too!

Physician, engineer and author Dr. Mae Jemison is the first black female astronaut to travel into space

Delta airlines all female black crew believed to be the first and only time in aviation history that this has happened

Black Wall Street,1900

“By the time we leave for work,Americans have depended on the inventions from the minds of blacks.”- Martin Luther king Jr.