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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas conceived of a film about brave fighter pilots. No, not "Star Wars," but the true-life tale of the barrier-shattering World War II squadron, The Tuskegee Airmen.
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By: Janice on 8/03/2011 12:00PM
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WHY THE HELL ARE YOU FOLKS RESPONDING TO THAT IDIOT! HUH! ARE YOU SERIOUS?
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By: hurtdogg on 8/03/2011 1:34PM
Max my uncle is a Retired Colonel from the Tuskegee Airmen and your really need to check your history again, most patents issued to whites were stolen from blacks and other minoritys. Yes max there were black scientist, they just wasn't given credit. What history class did you go too? History for dummies 103.You really don't like the Tuskegee Airmen, did your B-17 or B-24 get shot down and they weren't there for you. If so get over it!!!!
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By: hurtdogg on 8/03/2011 1:50PM
One more thing max, Ralph Bunche late 1940s first black nobel prize winner plus six other's and your AND MY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA.
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By: carl on 8/05/2011 5:52PM
Ralph Bunche got a Nobel in PEACE, not physics or mathematics. No Negroes have won a Nobel or contributed anything to physics or mathematics. They have only won Nobel prizes in Peace or literature, these be political wins. Never any Negro Nobel prize in physics or mathematics.
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By: Matt on 8/07/2011 7:53PM
@carl
Hey carl. As dumb as you sound, you don't know what a black person has won. Its obvious you don't have a clue to history.
But, I do know black men are taking your attractive white women, thats for sure, HAHAHA.
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By: hurtdogg on 8/03/2011 5:08PM
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Max! African-American scientist & educators from the 1700's until today. black History lesson for today.
Archibald Alexander
Archibald AlexanderProtestant clergyman and educator, born near Lexington, Virginia, USA. The son of a merchant farmer, he underwent a religious conversion in 1789, began to evangelize, and proved to be a fluent and persuasive preacher.
Patricia Bath
Patricia BathPatricia Bath was the first African-American to patent her medical invention, which removed cataract lenses by using a laser device that resulted in better accuracy.
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin BannekerAstronomer and mathematician. Born Benjamin Bannakay on November 9, 1731 near Baltimore, Maryland.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod BethuneEducator and civil and women's rights activist. Born July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina.
Guion Bluford
Guion BlufordAmerican engineer and astronaut Guion Bluford became the first black man in space after completing the STS-8 mission aboard the Challenger.
Otis Boykin
Otis BoykinInventor, engineer. Otis Boykin invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for a pacemaker.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Charlotte Hawkins BrownEducator. Born Lottie Hawkins in 1883, in Henderson, North Carolina.
Clara Brown
Clara BrownPhilanthropist, pioneer. Born a slave in 1800 in Virginia. Brown and her mother were bought by tobacco farmer Ambrose Smith.
Marjorie Lee Browne
Marjorie Lee BrowneA pioneer in the mathematics field Marjorie Lee Browne became one of the first African-American women to obtain a doctorate in the field.
George Carruthers
George CarruthersInventor, physicist, and space scientist. He received a patent for the "Image Converter," which detected electromagnetic radiation in short wave lengths, and in 1972 he invented the first moon-based observatory, which was used in the Apollo 16 mission.
Ben Carson
Ben CarsonPhysician. Neurosurgeon and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ben Carson made medical history with an operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins in 1987. He received of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in 2008.
George Washington Carver
George Washington CarverAmerican agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South.
Kenneth Bancroft Clark
Kenneth Bancroft ClarkPsychologist and educator, known for his expriments using dolls to study children's attitudes towards race. He was the first African-American fully tenured professor at the City College of New York and the first black president of the American Psychological Association.
Septima Clark
Septima ClarkThe "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement", Septima Clark, ensured proper literacy levels amongst blacks through extensive, informative workshops.
Marva Collins
Marva CollinsAn American educator, Marva Collins is famous for bringing a standard education to underprivileged children.
David Nelson Crosthwait
David Nelson CrosthwaitEngineer, inventor, writer. Born on May 27, 1898, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Alexander Crummell
Alexander CrummellBorn March 3, 1819, Alexander Crummell was a religious leader who advocated for Black Nationalism.
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Marie Daly
Marie DalyGraduate of Columbia University's class of 1947, Marie Daly became the first black woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Mark Dean
Mark DeanAmerican inventor and computer scientist Mark E. Dean has made instrumental advances to the PC, and holds over 20 patents.
Charles Drew
Charles DrewAmerican physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion.
Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn EldersPediatric endocrinologist, U.S. surgeon general. Born Minnie Lee Jones on August 13, 1933 in Schaal, Arkansas.
John Hope Franklin
John Hope FranklinHistorian and educator. Franklin is noted for helping to fashion the legal brief that led to the historic Supreme Court decision outlawing public school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
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Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis GatesEducator, author, editor. Born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia.
Patrick Healy
Patrick HealyCatholic priest and educator. Born on February 27, 1834, in Jones County, Georgia.
Matthew Henson
Matthew HensonAmerican black explorer who accompanied Robert E. Peary on most of his expeditions, including that to the North Pole in 1909.
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Mae C. Jemison
Mae C. JemisonAstronaut, physician. Born October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, the youngest child of Charlie Jemison, a roofer and carpenter, and Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher.
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie JohnsonAfrican-American engineer Lonnie Johnson designed one of America's favorite toys in 1989, the Super Soaker water gun.
Barbara Jordan
Barbara JordanActivist and politician Barbara Jordan was the first Southern African-American woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
Dr. Percy Lavon Julian
Dr. Percy Lavon JulianChemist, inventor. Born Percy Lavon Julian on April 11, 1899 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Ernest Everett Just
Ernest Everett JustCell biologist, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Lucy Craft Laney
Lucy Craft LaneyEducator. Born on April 13, 1854, in Macon, Georgia.
John Mercer Langston
John Mercer LangstonBlack leader, educator, and diplomat, who is believed to have been the first black ever elected to public office in the United States.
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard LatimerBorn September 4, 1848, Lewis Howard Latimer was an African-American inventor known for his work on electric fiber manufacturing methods.
Elijah McCoy
Elijah McCoyAmongst Elijah McCoy's many innovations were the lubricators he invented for steam engines in 1872.
Garrett Morgan
Garrett MorganAccredited innovator Garrett Morgan is best known for his life-saving invention of the respiratory protective hood.
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Sophia B. Packard
Sophia B. PackardA renown educator, Sophia B. Packard was the co-founder of Spelman College, an academic institution for African-American women.
Virginia Randolph
Virginia RandoplhEducator. The daughter of former slaves, Randolph became a teacher at age 16. She is widely considered a pioneer of vocational education.
Norma Sklarek
Norma SklarekNorma Sklarek excelled in her field of expertise: architecture. She became the first black woman to become a licensed architect in the United States.
Toni Stone
Toni StoneSports icon Toni Stone was one of the first women to play Negro league baseball and start regularly on a league professional team.
Charles Henry Turner
Charles Henry TurnerScientist, Charles Henry Turner made many contributions to the study of animal behavior, including discovering that insects could hear.
Alexander Lucius Twilight
Alexander Lucius TwilightIn 1823, Alexander Lucius Twilight became the first African-American to obtain a bachelor's degree from an accredited American college, Middlebury College.
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Madame CJ Walker
Madame CJ WalkerEntrepreneur and philanthropist. Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867, in Delta, Louisiana.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. WashingtonWriter, black leader, educator. Born Booker Taliaferro Washington on April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia.
James West
James WestInventor. James West's research in the early 1960s led to the development of foil-electret transducers for sound recording and voice communication that are used in 90 percent of all microphones built today and at the heart of most new telephones being manufactured.
Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale WilliamsAmerican physician and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, credited with the first successful heart surgery.
Granville T. Woods
Granville T. WoodsInventor, born in Ohio, USA. Born to free African-Americans, he received little schooling and in his early teens took up a variety of jobs, including in a railroad machine shop, as a railroad engineer, in a steel mill, as an engineer on a British ship, and then back on the railroad.
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. WoodsonHistorian, educator, author, and publisher. Born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia.
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By: carl on 8/05/2011 6:04PM
Patricia Bath "transformed eye surgery" by inventing the first laser device to treat cataracts in 1986? No!
Use of lasers to treat cataracts in the eye began to develop in the mid 1970s. M.M. Krasnov of Russia reported the first such procedure in 1975. One of the earliest US patents for laser cataract removal (#3,982,541) was issued to Francis L'Esperance in 1976. In later years, a number of experimenters worked independently on laser devices for removing cataracts, including Daniel Eichenbaum, whose work became the basis of the Paradigm Photon™ device; and Jack Dodick, whose Dodick Laser PhotoLysis System eventually became the first laser unit to win FDA approval for cataract removal in the United States. Still, the majority of cataract surgeries continue to be performed using ultrasound devices, not lasers.
Here is the background and REAL TRUTH about the development of laser cataract removal, no Negro original contributions:
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/lasercataract.asp
I have responded with a COMPREHENSIVE list of Negro invention myths in the post below.
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By: ADRIAN HARRIS OF SOUTH GEORGIA 80-86 EDDIE AND DORIS ROBINSON YEARS--BLACKOUT GRAD. on 9/04/2011 6:14AM
HAIL!!! GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY!!! HAIL!! BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE OF THE RAINBOW SEPIA SPECTRUM!! HAIL! hurtdogg---MORE---LEWIS LATIMORE; THE BRINGER OF THE LIGHT.--ACCORDING TO DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE, LEWIS LATIMORE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF {"TRANSFORMING ELECTRIC CURRENT" "CHEAPLY"} {INTO LIGHT} THROUGH THE {INVENTION} OF A {DURABLE "CARBON" FILAMENT} FOR THE {MAXIM ELECTRIC BULB OR THE INCANDESCENT BULB}. HE HAD FRIENDSHIPS WITH THE INVENTOR OF THE MACHINE GUN, MAXIM, AND ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, FOR WHOM HE DREW THE DESIGN FOR THE 1ST TELEPHONE, AND THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOR WHOM HE WORKED AND TO WHOM HIS PIONEERING PROBES IN ELECTRICITY OF WHICH LATIMORE BROUGHT A NEW ILLUMINATION. HE SUPERVISED THE INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, LONDON, ENGLAND, AND SEVERAL OTHER CITIES IN THE 1880'S.
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By: ROB on 8/05/2011 12:20PM
WOW Max sounds really angry doesent he realize that all history Black and white is never all fact and never all fiction stop the hate the real fact is they were there
were you???
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By: carl on 8/05/2011 5:40PM
Your entire list is composed of Negro myths.
Such myths usually originate in books or articles about black history. Since many of the authors have little interest in the history of technology outside of advertising black contributions to it, their stories tend to be fraught with misunderstandings, wishful thinking, or fanciful embellishments with no historical basis. The lack of historical perspective leads to extravagant overestimations of originality and importance: sometimes a slightly modified version of a pre-existing piece of technology is mistaken for the first invention of its type; sometimes a patent or innovation with little or no lasting value is portrayed as a major advance, even if there's no real evidence it was ever used.
Here is a comprehensive list of Negro invention MYTHS, with a corresponding list of the TRUE WHITE INVENTOR, which can be easily verified from the US patent office site:
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/
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