Sankofa Playing card REFERENCES

These remarkable people makeup our premier deck of Sankofa African American History Playing Cards.

Valerie Thomas:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/dr-valerie-l-thomas-face-behind-landsat-images/https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/025521337/publication/US4229761A?q=pn%3DUS4229761

Benjamin Banneker:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112037299119&view=1up&seq=7
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/banneker-benjamin-1731-1806/

George Alcorn:
https://www.invent.org/inductees/george-edward-alcorn
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/alcorn_georgeE.html

Garrett Morgan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Morgan
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1475024A/en

Elijah McCoy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081228104640/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/167.html
https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/notable-alumni/alumni-in-history/elijah-mccoy

Virginia Blount:
https://americacomesalive.com/bessie-blount-griffin-physical-therapist-and-inventor/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/bessie-blount

Lonnie Johnson:
https://www.biography.com/inventors/lonnie-g-johnson
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37062579

Daniel Hale Williams:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Hale-Williams
https://web.archive.org/web/20100527182037/http://www.providentfoundation.org/history/williams.html

Alexander Mills:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/miles-alexander-1838-1918/#:~:text=Born%20near%20Circleville%2C%20Ohio%20to,1887%20(U.S.%20Patent%20371%2C207).
https://www.thoughtco.com/alexander-miles-improved-elevator-4071713

Kenneth J. Dunkley:
https://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?blackhistory&KennethJ.Dunkley
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/if-you-were-able-to-watch-avatar-in-a-theatre-with-3d-glasses-all-the-credit-goes-to-this-man

John Henry Thompson:
https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/uncategorized/black-history-month-spotlight-john-henry-thompson/
https://ethw.org/John_Thompson

James Edward West:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/listen-up-james-west-forever-changed-the-way-we-hear-the-world/
https://pages.jh.edu/jhumag/0903web/west.html

David Crosthwait:
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/david-crosthwait
https://www.invent.org/inductees/david-crosthwait

Marjorie Stewart Joyner:
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/iap/inventors_joy.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=uyw_DwAAQBAJ&dq=marjorie+joyner&pg=PA461

Alice H. Parker:
https://robairecompany.com/the-mother-of-modern-heating-a-tribute-to-alice-h-parker/
https://energynews.us/2022/02/28/what-we-know-about-alice-parker-a-hidden-figure-in-modern-heating/

Sarah E. Goode:
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7560384
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2016/07/14/inventor-sarah-e-goode-first-black-woman-awarded-p/

Sister Rosetta Tharpe:
https://www.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/rock-and-roll-rosetta-tharpe/
https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/sister-rosetta-tharpe

Norbert Rilleaux:
https://archive.ph/20130403100253/https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/rillieux_biography.html
https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/norbertrillieux.html

Mark Dean:
https://www.biography.com/inventors/mark-dean
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/000103/archive_034033.htm

Charles Drew:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/01-52.htm
https://news.morgan.edu/former-morgan-professor-dr-charles-drew-inducted-into-national-inventors-hall-of-fame/

Ida B. Wells:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett

Betty Harris:
http://www.cpnas.org/aahp/biographies/betty-w-harris.html
https://mayonawoodlief.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/biography-of-dr-betty-harris/

Shirley Ann Jackson:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/college/faculty/coll_pres_jacksonbio.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/college/faculty/coll_pres_jacksonbio.html

Frederick McKinley Jones:
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/343.html
https://www.msthalloffame.org/frederick_mckinley_jones.htm

Charles W. Chappelle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Chappelle

George Franklin Grant:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US638920
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sinnette-fairways.html

Katherine Johnson:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/katherine-johnson-dead.html

Mae Jemison:
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/13/us/woman-in-the-news-a-determined-breaker-of-boundaries-mae-carol-jemison.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/groundbreaking-astronaut-and-star-trek-fan-now-working-interstellar-travel-180965277/

Fannie Lou Hamer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Freedom%27s_Sake
https://www.crmvet.org/nars/flh1.htm

Earnest E. Just:
https://archive.org/details/blackapolloofsci00kenn
https://www.biography.com/scientists/ernest-everett-just

Percy Julian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_L._Julian_Award
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503563.html

Louis Latimer:
https://www.biography.com/inventors/lewis-howard-latimer
https://invention.si.edu/innovative-lives-lewis-latimer-1848-1928-renaissance-man

Patricia Bath:
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/revolutionary-ophthalmologist-dr-patricia-bath-shake-off-haters-53357320?userab=abcn_web_article_ts-218*variant_c-820
https://www.theinnovationpress.com/thedoctorwithaneyeforeyes

Colonel Titus Tye:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p52.html
https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/02/colonel-tye-leader-of-loyalist-raiders-and-runaway-slave/#google_vignette

George Washington Carver:
https://www.livescience.com/41780-george-washington-carver.html
https://wayback.archive-it.org/855/20110505232216/http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/gwc/bio.html

Vivien Theodore Thomas:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-vivien-thomas-obit/92412871/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Thomas#Blue_baby_syndrome

Our next deck comes out 2025!

"One of the best ways to understand the history of African Americans is to look at their struggles and triumphs, their achievements and setbacks, and their contributions to the fabric of American society. By knowing this history, we can better understand the complexities of race relations, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and the ongoing fight for equality and justice."
~ Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Our Sankofa Playing Cards provides snippets of information that hopefully will spark an interest to learn more about those featured here. To learn more about these inspiring historical greats follow the links below their names. In the our first edition of Sankofa Playing Cards we are featuring an eclectic group of inspirational African American talent, past and present.