Top 10 Little Known Black History Facts

• In 1881, Andrew Beard invented the gardening tool known as a plow
• In 1918, Alice Parker created a heating furnace that could be used to heat an entire living space.
• In 1969, Marie V. Brittan Brown designed the security system 
• In 1959, Dr. William C. Davis, invented mashed potatoes
• Joseph N. jackson invented a programmable remote control for televisions
• Alfred L. Cralle invented the ice cream scooper
• W.E.B. DuBois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard
• Garret A. Morgan invented the Three Way Traffic Light
• Lloyd P. Ray invented the "dust pan"
• February was chosen as Black History Month becuase two important birthdays occur in February - that of Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation and that of Frederick Douglas an early African American abolonist