The educational environment in which she developed as a thinker was shaped by the HBCU tradition even when it was not formally provided by an HBCU.

The Commercial Product That Finally Came

The sanitary belt invention that had been rejected after the company discovered Kenner was Black eventually found a manufacturer.

After the eighteen years of waiting, a company agreed to produce the product, and it came to market.

The specific commercial history of the product is less well-documented than the history of the invention and the rejection, which is itself a significant fact: the moment of racial injustice is more fully recorded than the eventual partial resolution.

What is known is that the product was manufactured and sold, and that Kenner did see her invention reach the market, though the commercial window had narrowed by the time it arrived.