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Tue, 09.13.1881

An Electric Light Bulb is Patented by a Black Man

*On this date in 1881 a Black man patented an electric light bulb.  

Lewis Latimer an associate of Thomas Edison received credit for his blueprint work.  His patent number is #247 097.  

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Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips. As the jukebox teases, watch my sistas throat the heartbreak, inhaling bassline, cracking backbone... HIP HOP CHAZAL by Patricia Smith.
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