Forgotten Great Americans

The Growing List

John Horse - (1812?-1882)
Dr. Mark Dean - 1957
Andrew Jackson Beard - (1849-1921)
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable - (1745 - 1818)  - Considered by many to be the founder of Chicago
Grace Hooper - (1906 - 1992)
Buffalo Soldiers - (1866-1898)
Frederick Jones - (1893-1961)
Vincente Guerrero (1783-1831)
Flossie Wong-Staal - (1947-)
Stephanie Kwolek - (1923 -)
Philo Farnsworth - (1906-1971)
Patricia Bath - (1942 -)
Percy Lavon Julian - (1899-1975)
Dennis Moeller - (1957 -)
William Harvey Carney - (1842 1908)
Meredith Gourdine - (1929-1998)
Virginia Harris Holsinger- (1937 -)
Lewis Latimer (1848–1928)
Elijah McCoy (1844 - 19
Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894)
Gertrude Belle Elion (1918 - 1999)
Leonidas Berry (1902-1996) Medical pioneer
Charles Drew (1904-1950) - Medical researcher
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (1911-1992) - Scientist and inventor at Bell Laboratories
Henry McBay (1914-1995) - Chemist
John E Hodge (1914-1996) - Chemist
Confederate African-American Soldiers-(An American history completely ignored)

A PREVIEW OF A FEW OF THESE GREAT AMERICANS. (Mouse over images to see brief comments. Microsoft IE only)

Grace Hopper - Co-Inventor of Cobol Computer Lanuage - Application - Bank ATMsMaggie Walker, African-American woman and a bank founder, United Bank of Philadelphia. First woman to charter a bank in the United States.

Federick Jones - Holds Patents on Long Haul Refrigeration & Co-Founder of Thermo King Corp.

Dr. Mark E. Dean - Co-Inventor of IBM P.C.
Patricia Bath - Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe for the treatment of cataracts, and founder of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. Philo Fransworth - Mormon Farm boy who conceived the basic operating principles of electronic television at the age of just 13 years

Flossie Wong-Staal - Is credited as the codiscoverer of HIV.
Sgt. William H. Carney is credited as being the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Sgt. Carney served with the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Stephanie Kwolek - invented one of the modern world's most readily recognized and widely used materials: Kevlar. James Beckwourth - (1798-1866) - An African American who played a major role in the early exploration and settlement of the American West.

10th Cav Buffalo Soldier

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