Post-Emancipation & Reconstruction
1865–1900
“Newfound Freedom & Community Rebuilding”
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Benjamin F. Jackson
Gas Burner
1911
Garret A. Morgan
Breathing Device/Gas Mask
1914
Joseph H. Dickinson
Phonograph
1918
Alice H. Parker
Heating Furnace
1919
John A. Johnson
Wrench
1922
Garret A. Morgan
Mechanical Traffic Signal
1923
Madame C. J. Walker
Hair Care Products
1929
Marjorie Stewart-Joyner
Scalp Protector
1929
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Pre-Egyptian Times
Before 3100 BC
~ 322 BC
CLASSICAL & MIDIEVAL AFRICAN KINGDOMS
322 BC ~1500 AD
TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING & EARLY COLONIZATION
1500 ~ 1970
Pre-Civil War
1790 ~ 1864
Post Emancipation
1865 ~ 1899
Industrial Revolution
1900 ~ 1929
Civil Rights Era
1930 ~ 1969
Digital Age
1970 ~ Present
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