40 African American Inventors
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1. Madame C.J. Walker

2. George Washington Carver

3. Lonnie Johnson

4. George Edward Alcorn, Jr.

5. Benjamin Banneker

6. Charles Drew

7. Thomas L. Jennings

8. Elijah McCoy

9. Garrett Morgan

10. James Edward M. West

11. Lewis Howard Latimer

12. Patricia Era Bath

13. Mark Dean

14. Otis Boykin

15. Granville Woods

16. Norbert Rillieux

17. Jan Ernst Matzeliger

18. Frederick McKinley Jones

19. Sarah Elizabeth Jacobs Goode

20. Robert Carruthers

21. Sarah Boone

22. Bessie Blount griffin

23. Andrew Jackson Beard

24. Thomas L. Jennings

25. Richard Spikes

26. Joseph Winters

27. Ben Montgomery

28. Annie Malone

29. Henry Brown

30. Madeline Turner 

31. Marie Van Brittan Brown

32. George Crum

33. Percy Lavon Julian

34. Mary Beatrice Davidson

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