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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
In this Black History Month Highlight, we cover some firsts in television. Nat King Cole was the first African American television host and Oprah Winfrey the first female African American host. Bill Cosby is owed mention for being the first African American star on a syndicated program in "I Spy."
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
As creator of the three-way traffic signal, we use this African-American inventor's work everyday while driving in our cars. But Garrett Morgan's ingenuity was put to heroic use back in 1916 when he created an early version of the gas mask and used it to rescue 32 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel beneath Lake Erie.
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