Black History Month Spotlight

• Maggie L. Walker made many achievements during her lifetime. In 1903, she became the first African-American woman to charter a bank and the first African-American woman to serve as a bank president.
• Thomas Jennings invented a process he called "dry-scouring," receiving a patent in 1821 and becoming the first African American to be granted a patent. His dry scouring process was a predecessor to today's dry cleaning methods.
  
• Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor who was active in the early 1900s. She is known for her patent for a gas furnace.
  
• Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security system. She is also credited with the invention of the first closed circuit television.
  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Naughty Nine, Rosergrad Morning Show, Roxy Romeo, Mother Nos and
Mikey Drudd currently seven six on this Thursday. We do
it each and every day since the beginning of the month.
It is Black History Month. And Mother gives you his
Black History fact. And I had to put a nice
little intro on there because I was listening to Mother's
podcast and I'm featured on his podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yes, thank you. I appreciate that. Absolutely. What you think,
I'm just gonna cut you off disrespectful. The next time
you pick up a dry cleaner, send a thank you
to the memory of Thomas Jennings. Jennens invented a process
called dry scouring which removed dirt and greece from clothing
in eighteen twenty one, a forerunner of modeling dry cleaner,

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Thomas L. Jennings was the first black man to receive
a patent. The patent was awarded on March third, eighteen
twenty one. Marie Van Britton Brown was the inventor of
the first home security system. She is also credited with
the invention of the first closed circuit television. Brown was

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born in Queens, New York, on October twenty second, nineteen
twenty two. And raised there until her death of February second,
nineteen ninety nine, at age seventy six. More than one
hundred years ago, an African American inventor named Alice H.
Parker designed and endure heating system using natural gas that

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she called a heathen fonus. Alice Parker was an African
American woman in eighteen ninety five in New Jersey. She
attended Howard University in Washington, d C. And, last, but
not least, in nineteen oh three, Maggie Lena Walker became
both the first African American woman to charter a bank

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and the first African American woman to serve as a
bank president in the United States. The Saint Luke Penny
Savings a bank in Richmond, Virginia. That is your Black
History Month. If you miss it, head on over to
the Mother Nos podcast right on Iheartoorpower ninety nine dot

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