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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading black inventors for kids amazing african american inventors who changed history important. These pioneers have contributed to the fields of medicine, agriculture, science and technology, to name. Miless designwhich he patented in 1887allowed both of these doors to. A considerable amount of the worlds most influential inventors have been africanamerican, which is a fact that is often overlooked. Historymaking black scientists and inventors should be honored as much for the.
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