Don P. Hooper

African American’s in space technology:

George Carruthers invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, used in the 1972 Apollo 16 mission. His iInvention also revealed new features of Earth’s far-outer atmosphere and deep-space objects from the perspective of the lunar surface. He was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2003.

What’s going on in Black History today?

Did you know that Lewis Howard Latimer was chief draftsman for both General Electric and Westinghouse. In 1873 he invented a ‘water closet for railroad cars’ and drafted the patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone.

In 1881, Latimer invented the carbon fillament for light bulbs.

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David Crosthwait Jr., an African American, created the heating system for New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. He was the first African American to be named a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers. True.

John McLendon held the 1st interracial basketball known as “the secret game” in 1944: N.C. College vs. Duke Navy Med School.

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In 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi is elected the country’s first African-American senator

George Crum, son of an African-American father and a Native American mother, invented potato chip.

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1st African American woman PhD in US & 1st woman to receive law degree at UPenn.

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Yeah, we only get one month so let’s make it count. Flood the internet with your knowledge of black history every day, until people wake up expecting black history. That way the world will remember Black History all year round.

Check it out: Tubefilter.com quoted me on joining the Writers Guild East – enjoy:
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Also, Jamtown Films was mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter

My father showed me this. Got to love my Jamaican people. Whoever posted this video subtitled it for the Patoi impaired.