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  • Today, Garrett Morgan is one of the most well-known African American inventors of the early 20th century, but during his era he faced pervasive.
  • Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. ( – ) was an African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader.
  • Garrett Augustus Morgan was a self-taught Black inventor and It was there, in Rocky Mount, that he married Barbara Batts, and future jazz.

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    An innovation that's saved countless lives: years of Garrett Morgan's traffic signal

    CLEVELAND — Whenever Sandra Morgan approaches an intersection as the light shifts from green to yellow, she said she feels a touch of pride.

    "I'm reminded of my unique family heritage and my grandfather's contribution to public safety," Morgan told CNN.

    It's been years since Garrett Morgan, Sandra's grandfather, patented the three-position traffic signal. Morgan said she's proud of her family's legacy and is often struck by the fact that her grandfather's invention has saved an untold number of lives.

    But the origin of Morgan's traffic signal, she said, was sparked by a tragedy.

    Bringing traffic to a standstill

    Before Garrett Morgan's invention was patented in , traffic signals were manually operated by officers with only two instructions — stop and go.

    The roads were congested with horse-drawn carriages, streetcars, automobiles, bicycles, and pedestrians, according to Rebekah Oakes

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    Whether it is cultivating pecans and turning them into cash crops or creating the “miracle of sound” that is black music, black people have been at the forefront of creating inventions that become staple fixtures in American society.

    As Tiya Miles noted in her piece for the New York Time Magazine, “The Enslaved Pecan Pioneer,” it was a slave gardener named Antoine who created what would become America’s first successful commercially viable pecan varietal. Black people have made contributions in the realms of food, music (as Wesley Morris pointed out in his piece on popular American music), entertainment and so many other areas that you probably would not even imagine.

    One hidden gem in inventors’ history is the trailblazer Garrett Morgan. With only elementary school education, he went on to patent several inventions that remain relevant in today’s time.

    Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky, on March 4, , and was the seventh of 11 children. His mother was of Indian and African des

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    Garret Morgan

  • 1. Garrett Morgan is one of those rare people who are able to come up with an extraordinary invention which has a tremendous impact on society - and then follows that up with even more!   GARRET A. MORGAN

  • 2. THE BEGINING Garrett Morgan was born on March 4, in Paris, Kentucky the seventh of 11 children born to Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan.

  • 3. Garrett, at the early age of 14 decided that he should travel north to Ohio in beställning to receive a better education. He moved to Cincinnati and then to Cleveland, working as a handyman in order to make ends meet. He stayed in Cleveland working as a sewing machine repair man for a clothing manufacturer . In , the inventor opened his own sewing utrustning and repair shop. It was the first of several businesses he would establish. In he married with Mary Anne Hassek, with whom he would have three sons. In he expanded the enterprise to include a tailoring shop that employed 32 employees.

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