INDEX OF BLACK INVENTORS BY STATE OR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE 1834-2008

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Compiled by Margaret J. Collins, Library Program Specialist
Patent and Trademark Depository Library
Illinois State Library
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Springfield, IL   62701
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Mcollins@ilsos.net
Jesse White, Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian
10/6/2008

Edited and reformatted for Microsoft Excel by Eileen Fischlschweiger, Patent and Trademark Librarian
Patent and Trademark Depository Library
Business, Law, and Government Services
Broward County Library - Main Library
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Fort Lauderdale, FL  33301
954-357-7439
10/30/2008

Sources

• Baker, Henry E.  The Colored Inventor.  Salem, NH:  Ayer Company Publisher, 1913, Reprints Edition 1992.
• Diggs, Irene.  Black Innovators.  Chicago, IL:  Institute of Positive Education, 1975.
• Gibbs, C. R.  Black Inventors:  From Africa to America Two Million Years of Invention and Innovation. Silver Spring, MD:  Three Dimensional Publishing, 1995.
• Google News Archive, http://news.google.com/archivesearch
• Heritage Quest online, http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/census/search/basic
• Inventions and Patents of African-Americans - 20th Century. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/inv20.htm Prepared by Velma L. Martin, Librarian. St. Louis Public Library, Dec., 1996 (accessed Jan. 24, 2006)
• Mapp, Shannon H.  Black Miracles; the Miracles of Black Inventors and Scientists. Asheville, NC:  Purpose Publishing, 1998.
• Negro Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 1925-26.  Edited by Monroe N. Work.  Tuskegee Institute, AL:  Negro Year Book Publishing Co., 1925.
• Negro Year Book:  A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life 1941-1946.  Edited by Jessie ParkHurst Guzman.  Tuskegee Institute, AL:  Foote and Davies, Inc., 1947.
• Negro Year Book: A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life 1952. Edited by Woodrow Hall, et al.  WM H. Wise & Co., NY., 1952.
• Simpson, Helen McWorter.  Makers of History.  Evansville, IN:  Laddie B. Warren, 1981
• Sluby, Patricia Carter.  The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity.  Westport, CT:  Praeger, 2004.
• Walker, Juliet.  The History of Black Business in American:  Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship.  NY:  Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series, 1998.
• Webster, Raymond B. African American Firsts in Science and Technology.  Farmington Hills, MI:  Gale Group Inc., 1999.