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The Family, The Foundation
All great achievements by Stack
The SevemUp Company salutes this
and leadership all A rr.erita n s ta n hMkw>
Americans - from an Olympic race to
most important and ftindamen tai of ail
and em ulate.
a flight in space— have been products
Institutions. And the heroic, but unsung,
of a unique, essential support system:
grandparents, parents, brothers and
Theramily.
sisters whose lo w . sacrifice and support
h aw culminated In Indelible success.
These "common" people share an
Ttits Seven-Up fa m ily p o rtra it gives
te stim o n y to the Black C o m m u n ity s
ded ica tion and d e te rm in a tio n to dis
cover and lu lflll its destiny w ith in ...
T h e ra m ily .
uncommon heritage o f respect unity
Madame C.J. Walker
Business acumen was also exhibited by a woman whose name has been
synonymous with beauty. Born in Delta, La., in 1875 to poor ex-slave parents;
orphaned and married at fourteen, she was widowed at twenty with a young
child to raise alone. She then moved to St. Louis where she supported herself
and her daughter by doing laundry. There, she met and married a newspaper
man, Charles J. Walker.
Madame C.J. Walker, as she became known, developed and manufactured
cosmetics which she first began selling door-to-door through the South and
Midwest. She invented the "hot comb" and her hair straightening process
which initially brought her ridicule, but with which she eventually became the
first black millionairess. Through her schools and correspondence course in
beauty culture, she became the first black person in the modern world to
develop a large manufacturing business.
Madame Walker had great admiration for educators and became a patron of
six black youths every year whom she would send to Tuskegee. In addition,
she donated thousands of dollars annually to indigent youths for college
educations at other institutions. She offered Mrs. Bethune her friendship and
funding for the college. Dismayed by the lynchings that were sweeping the
country, she donated five thousand dollars to the National Council on Lynching.
This remarkable woman died in 1919.
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SALUTES TWO BLACK INVENTORS
CRAINVILLE T. WOODS
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INVENTOR
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas
Edison dominated the age of electricity
in the late 1800's, but others played
important roles.
Lewis Howard Latim er and Gran
ville T . Woods, who produced key
inventions, had two things in common
They both contributed to telephone
and electricity and they were Black.
L A T IM E R was born in 1848 He left
home at sixteen to join the Navy and
after serving in the Civil W ar. returned
to Boston to become a draftsman.
Alexander Graham Bell hired La
timer in 1876 to make the patent
drawings for the first telephone
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D R A F T S M A N . E N G IN E E R
A fte r joining the United States
Electric Lighting Company in 1880.
la tim e r invented a carbon filament for
an incandescent lamp. As a member of
Edison's engineering staff he aupervis
ed the installation of the electric light
in New York. Philadelphia. Montreal
and lx>ndon.
latter in life Latim er produced one of
his first books, explaining the principle
of the electric light and published a
volume of his poetry when he retired
He died at the age of eighty.
W OODS who was born in Columbus.
Ohio in 1856. was a prolific inventor
He learned through practical exper
ienre rather than from books He quit
school at ten and improved his
mechanical skills by working in
machine shop and on a railroad
He was 28 when he patented his first ,
invention: a furnance and a boiler to
produce steam heat In the same year
he invented a telephone transm itter
which he sold to Bell.
Wood's 150 patented inventions
included an incubator, an electrical
relay switch, a regulator for electric
motors, and a safety rut out switch to
avoid overloading electrical circuits.
One of his last inventions was .
telegraph system for use between
moving trains.
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