On This Day: July 14 Introduced Us To Black Women In Stem And Pan-African Research
July 14 is significant in that it celebrates an innovator and a major move in Black American history. Sarah E. Goode We can’t talk Black women in STEM without the...
July 14 is significant in that it celebrates an innovator and a major move in Black American history.
Sarah E. Goode
We can’t talk Black women in STEM without the mention of Sarah E. Goode, who pioneered a path for Black women in industrial design, engineering, and creative entrepreneurship. Good is the first African American women to receive a United States patent, granted on July 14, 1885.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg center opens in Harlem, New York on July 14, 1925. Arturo Schomburg’s collection of African American artifacts are acquired by- and housed as part the New York Public Library.

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