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Did You Know That The Modern Day Ironing Board Was Invented By A Black Woman?

A former enslaved woman, Sarah Boone, became the fourth Black woman in the USA to be awarded a patent for her collapsible ironing board on April 26, 1892, which improved the way clothes are pressed. ....

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