Meet Judy Reed, The First African American Woman To Receive A US Patent in 1884
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Little is known about Judy W. Reed, the first African American woman to be granted a patent in…
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African American Firsts
Matthias de Sousa: The First African American Officeholder In Colonial America, Maryland, 1641
Matthias de Sousa, an indentured servant, was the colonial Maryland legislature’s only black member. As such, he is…