The Little-Known Story Of Mary Kenner, The First Black American Woman To Earn Five Patents
First.
She deserved better than what she received in her lifetime.
She deserves better than partial recognition now.
Telling her story fully and accurately, in all its complexity and with honest attention to both her achievements and the forces that worked against them, is the minimum that history owes her.
She was here.
She invented.
She endured.
She matters.