The Little-Known Story Of Mary Kenner, The First Black American Woman To Earn Five Patents
And the discomfort is appropriate.
A country that genuinely valued the inventive tradition it claims to value would not have spent eighteen years failing to manufacture a product that one of its inventors had patented.
It would not have allowed the color of an inventor’s skin to determine whether a manufacturing deal would proceed.
It would not have left Mary Kenner’s name out of the historical narratives that shaped what generations of students believed about who the inventors of America were.
The gap between the claim and the practice is, itself, a historical fact.
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