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.