Egypt and Black History Month
ecthompsonmd
February 25, 2011
February is Black History Month. For all black authors, there is some sort of unwritten rule that it is blasphemy not to comment on Black History in February. Well, I will not commit blasphemy this month. In many schools, history is taught as a bunch of isolated facts that are seldom related to reality. Students are forced to digest facts like… In 1885, Sarah E. Goode invented a bed that folded into a cabinet. She was the second black woman to receive a patent. Garrett Augustus Morgan created a gas mask. Thomas J. Martin patented the fire extinguisher in 1872. George
