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Tue, 10.19.1982

A Sanitary Dispenser Is Patented By A Black Woman

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*On this date in 1982, Black innovator Mary Kenner patented a sanitary dispenser.
The patent number is #4354643.

Reference:

Black Inventors and Inventions.com

Black First:
2,000 years of extraordinary achievement
by Jessie Carney Smith
Copyright 1994 Visible Ink Press, Detroit, MI
ISBN 0-8103-9490-1

USPO.gov

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