Oldest Black-owned restaurant in the U.S.
All by Connie Pendergast
Oldest Black-owned restaurant in the U.S.
Poet, First Black writer in the United States
Re-designed traffic signal to include cautionary yellow light.
Developed hood for firefighters and chemists to keep out toxic air (later used to develop the gas mask).
Master chef who invented the potato chip.
Born a slave but died a self-published chef