African American Inventors and Black Inventors

The African American community has been mostly considered to be music and reggae and hip hop and everything but never studies. I want to tell everyone that notion is also being gradually being done away with folks in general taking up to studies and literature ad everything like I described earlier in my post about the African American philosophy.

Some of the famous African American inventors who inhabited this earth and they are of course fellow brethren


Mathematician and Astronomer – Benjamin Banneker
Agricultural Chemist – George Washington Carver

Thomas L Jennings – first African American top hold a patent

Garrette Augustus Morgan – Invented the gas mask
David Crosswaith Jr. – Received patents for HVAC that is air conditioning and heating systems for the common man.

Elijah McCoy – Invented oil dripping for trains

Lewis Latimer
Jan Ernst Matzelinger
Granvill T. Woods
Otis Bykin
Dr. Patricia E. Bath – invented a new method of eye surgery
Lonni G, Johnson

Those are some of the African American inventors and now on to something more related to the current trends and the way want to look.

Nose shape and African American looks

This has been subject of debate for many years and more so now with the advent of nose surgery purely for cosmetic reasons. This type of nose surgery is commonly known as rhinoplasty and the way the number of people undergoing the African American rhinoplasty is going quite high and what that means is that the Africana American community wants to be probably part of the mainstream or they want to be changing their looks inspired by the actors and the actresses.

Well we all know of Michael Jackson and his looks which can kind proved to be very successful though I am sure it must have cost huge amount of money and pain and that means that we need to be careful of what we do.

I was searching for something on rhinoplasty and came across wonderful site which tells all about the rhinoplasty and this site has all what you can get about rhinoplasty. The other site which I think is equally good though it has very less detail about the actual procedure but sums it up well as far as African American Psychology goes.

Here are the sites

African American pictures of rhinoplasty - http://www.africanamericanrhinoplasty.com/rhinoplasty_photos_men.html


African American Rhinoplasty -
Apart form this fascination for a Caucasian nose is something which is inbuilt into the psyche and it has definitely prompted cries from all quarters to youngsters to make sure that they can live with what a typical African American nose is .

A testimony to this is Samuel L Jackson, Morgan Freeman and Sidney Poitier and George Washington that they did have successful careers with normal noses.

That said each and every thing about the African American styles is very distinctively different like the cultures and the preference for music, preference for females (yes ) and even for the kind of food and clothes. I will go in detail about all those in my next post.

Famous African American Men and Women

African Americans as a community have been very progressive after getting rid of all racial discrimination in the civil act now have become much more aggressive and very much the most important part of the American culture.

Now that has sprung up a lot many people in all spheres of life who have become famous and the first and foremost being Mr. Barack Obama as the president of United States and the Michele Obama as the first African American to be the First Lady of America.

Notable among the entertainers are

Josephine Baker
Oprah Winfrey
Janet Jackson

Among the civil righst activists are

Daisy Bates
Angela Davis
Myrlei Evers
Dorothy Height


Among the famous people on Hollywood

Samuel Jackson
Micahel Jackson
Will Smith
Halle Berry to name a few.

Nobel prize winners

Toni Morrison
Wangari Mathaai


There are many more famous African Americans and I will keep writing about them here and will keep updating them with some greater information.

Plus the next few things that I want to write about in this blog is everything that is African American and means a lot of special things like the difference between us and the Whites or the regular Americans and Asians in terms of food habits as well as dressing styles and music and everything else.

African American history - An introduction

African Americans are those people who are citizens or residents of America but have their roots or origins in the continent of Africa.

These African Americans came to US at the time when slavery was at its peak and these are the single biggest community after the White Americans.

The place where the African Americans first arrived was the town called Jamestown near Virginia and the year was 1619.James Armistead was the main person who helped the English colonist to secure the American independence in 1781 Yorktown war.

Another famous African American is Oliver Cromwell who is actually shown in the portrait which was done by George Washington called the 1776 crossing of the Delaware portrait.

1863 was the year when Abraham Lincoln declared that all the salves were free by issuing a decree called the Emancipation Proclamation

Civil rights act of 1964 banned any racial discrimination whatsoever in the public accommodations, employment and labor unions