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Tue, 09.29.1987

A Shower Back Washer is Patented by a Black Woman

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*On this date in 1987, Black innovator Mary Kenner patented a shower backwasher.
The patent number 4696068.

Reference:

Black Inventors and Inventions.com

USPO.gov

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

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