These 5 African-American inventors improved the world

Alexander Miles, Charles Richard Drew, Marie Van Brittan Brown, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Mark E. Dean are just a few notable African-American inventors. We live in a world with blood banks, automated elevators, caller ID, and color computer monitors because of their work.

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