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Elijah McCoy, Lewis Latimer and Granville Woods: African-American Inventors of the 19th Century — Part 3 — The Educational System in 19th Century America

African-Americans at the end of the Civil War craved accep­tance as a peo­ple and this hope was only par­tially rec­i­p­ro­cated. Edu­ca­tion in the late 19th Cen­tury was either a short-lived moment in a person’s life or a multi-year lux­ury that … Con­tinue read­ing

02. June 2010 by Glenn Vance
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