Leaving plenty of time to get to googling and bone up on the accomplishments of notable africanamericans. Like Garrett Morgan the son of formerly enslaved parents, who was the first person to apply for and receive a u. S. Patent for a traffic signal. Ida b. Wells, a journalist and activist who led a tireless crusade against lynching in the 1890s. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams the first physician to perform and successfully complete open heart surgery on a patient in the United States. Or Marian Anderson whose soaring voice earned her the distinction of being both the first africanamerican to perform with the new York Metropolitan Opera and the first to perform at the invitation of franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt at the white house. And the list goes on. But of course africanAmerican History, which is to say American History, is much more than a listing of little known names and facts. Any honest interrogation of that history means not just gathering a collection of trivia about individual am
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Cottage Health in Santa Barbara, Calif. has received a $50 million donation from the Compton family for the new Compton Center for Medical Excellence and Innovation.