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Garret Morgan

 Black Inventors in Technology


Garret Morgan invented the modern traffic light and the gas mask. He was born on March 4, 1877. Garrett Morgan faced racial discrimination, but he didn't let that slow him down. His parents were slaved who were freed before Garret Morgan was born. He was inspired to invent an improvement to traffic signals, after witnessing a collision between a horse carriage and an automobile. He only had a 6-grade education, so he hired a tutor and started working as a handy man, fixing sewing machines. 

Today, Tech companies should start hiring more minorities to combat racial bias in computing and technology, so minorities can get the same opportunities.


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