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Rockaa/ Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 26, 2024
On April 26, 1892, Sarah Boone made history as the fourth Black woman in the U.S. to be awarded a patent for her collapsible ironing board invention.
Boone’s accomplishment becomes even more impressive when you consider the fact that “just two decades earlier, she could not read.” As an enslaved woman growing up in the south, it was illegal for Black people
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