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Alexander Miles (May 18, 1838 – May 7, 1918) was an African-American inventor who was best known for being awarded a patent for an automatically opening and closing elevator doors. He was awarded the patent, U.S. Patent 371,207, on October 11, 1887.

Alexander Miles was probably born in Pickaway County near the town of Circleville, in 1838 the son of Michael and Mary Miles. Miles may have resided in the nearby town of Chillicothe, Ohio, but subsequently moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin where he earned a living as a barber. After a move to Winona, Minnesota, he met and married Mrs. Candace J. (Shedd) Dunlap, of La Porte, Indiana, a widow with two children who was four years his senior and a native of New York. Together they had a daughter, born in 1876, named Grace. Shortly after her birth, the family relocated to Duluth, Minnesota.

The family moved to Montgomery, Alabama by 1889, where Miles was listed in the city directories as a laborer. However, by 1900, he listed himself as an insurance agent. Around 1903, they moved again, to Seattle, Washington where he worked in a hotel as a barber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Miles
 
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Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926)was an American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license. She achieved her international pilot license in 1921. Born to a family of sharecroppers in Texas, she went into the cotton fields at a young age but also studied in a small segregated school and went on to attend one term of college at Langston University. She developed an early interest in flying, but African Americans, Native Americans, and women had no flight-school opportunities in the United States, so she saved up money to go to France to become a licensed pilot. She soon became a successful air show pilot in the United States, and hoped to start a school for African-American fliers. She died in a plane crash in 1926 while testing her new aircraft. Her pioneering role was an inspiration to early pilots and to the African-American and Native American communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
 
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Emma Dupree was an herbalist and traditional healer (sometimes called a "granny woman") in Falkland and Fountain, Pitt County, North Carolina.

Background

Born July 4, 1897, the seventh among 18 siblings, Emma Williams Dupree grew up on the Tar River and was known in her family as "that little medicine thing" because of her early understanding of herbs. Her parents, Pennia and Noah Williams, were freed slaves farming in Falkland, NC. She told an interviewer in 1979 that her mother remembered being "on the porch of the old Wooten's farm home when freedom came. She was 16 when Mr. and Mrs. Wooten walked out on that porch and told her she was 'as free as they were, but they loved her just the same.'"

She was married for one year to Ethan Cherry, a farmer. She divorced him and remarried another farmer, Austin Dupree, Jr., who was born in 1892. Emma and Austin moved to Fountain, NC in 1936 and had five children, whose ages in the 1930 U.S. Census are indicated in parentheses: Lucy (12), Herbert (9), John (5), Doris (3), and Mary (1). They remained married until his death at age 90. She died at home, at 3313 N. Jefferson St, Fountain, on March 12, 1996.

She is buried at Saint John's Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, in Falkland.

Emma Dupree's "garden-grown pharamacy" included sassafras, white mint, double tansy, rabbit tobacco, maypop, mullein, catnip, horseradish, silkweed and other plants from which she made tonics, teas, salves and dried preparations. These were cultivated in her yard and gathered from the banks of the Tar River. She told Karen Baldwin that she grew a special tree in her back yard, which she called her "healing berry tree." She explained, "Now that tree, I don't know of another name for it, but it's in the old-fashioned Bible and the seed for it came from Rome." She also told Baldwin of being an especially alert baby: "They said I was just looking every which way. And I kept acting and moving and doing things a baby didn't do. And I walked early. I was walking at seven months old, just as good and strong. When I got so I got out doors, I went to work. I was pulling up weeds, biting them, smelling in them, and spitting them out. And folks in them days, they just watched me, watched what I was doing."

Awards and recognition

(1984) Dupree was awarded the Brown-Hudson Award by the North Carolina Folklore Society, recognizing her as an individual who contributed significantly to the transmission, appreciation and observance of traditional culture and folklife in North Carolina.

(1992) Dupree received the North Carolina Heritage Award, lifetime achievement recognition for outstanding traditional artists in North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Dupree
 
Thank you, Zumi

Bessie is an idol to me. There should be so much more than 28 days!
 
nowisthetime said:
Wonderful thread, Zumi!

It's hard to forget that many of those brave every day folks were young people, teenagers even, all of this before the days of social media!
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very much so!!
and thanks to the author of this magnificent thread. . Thank you!!
 
IrezumiKiss said:
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Cathay Williams (September 1844 – 1893) was an American soldier who enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. She was the first African-American woman to enlist, and the only documented to serve in the United States Army posing as a man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Williams
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we can blame Lincoln for most of the robberies and killing, not all, but, most.

when is White history month??!!
 
yup! thanks for keeping this marvelous thread open, each year.
thank you. . .
 
This is a wonderful idea! Thanks so much for this thread...I’ve learned a lot already and look forward to more.
 
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951)[2] was an African-American woman[3] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line[4] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.[5]

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