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Black Inventors Quiz

If not for the contributions of African-American inventors, a lot of what we take for granted today wouldn't exist. How well do you know them and their works?

George Washington Carver is perhaps the most famous of African-American inventors, but his educational career got off to a rocky start.

Why did the president of Highland University, in Kansas, withdraw a scholarship offer made to Carver?

button He couldn't read.
button He was a Negro.
button He refused to live on campus.
button He didn't have the "proper" clothes.