Inventors
Books
- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, Raymond Obstfeld, Ben Boos, and AG Ford. 2012. What Color is My World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors. Somerville, Mass: Candlewick Press.
- Fouché, Rayvon. 2003. Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer & Shelby J. Davidson. Baltimore, Md. [u.a.]: The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
- Gibbs, C. R. 1995. Black Inventors: From Africa to America: Two Million Years of Invention and Innovation. Silver Spring, MD: Three Dimensional Pub.
- Holmes, Keith C. 2008. Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success. New York: Global Black Inventor Research Projects.
- Sullivan, Otha Richard, and James Haskins. 1998. African American Inventors. New York: Wiley.
- Williams, James Henry. 2011. African American Inventors and Pioneers. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris Corp.
Videos
Websites
Websites Cont.
- African American Inventors - Smithsonian
- African American Patent Holders Database [PDF]
- Bellis, Mary. “African American Inventors,” ThoughtCo., January 27, 2019.
- Black or Afro-American Inventors Patent and Invention Index [PDF]
- Black Inventors A-Z
- Black Inventors and Their Inventions [PDF]
- Famous Black Inventors
- Famous Black Inventors – About.com
- Famous Black Inventors. Biography
- Index of Virginia African American Inventors [PDF]
- Johnson, Shontavia Jackson. “The Colorblind Patent System and Black Inventors,” ABA [American Barr Association] 2018-19.
- Male Inventors
- Museum of Black Inventions and Innovations
- 10 Important Black Inventors in U.S. History
- 30 Reasons to Thank a Black Person
Women Inventors
- Female Inventors
- Historic Innovators: 9 Great African-American Women Inventors
- Holmes, Keith C. 2008. Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success. New York: Global Black Inventor Research Projects.
- Tsjeng, Zing. “The Forgotten Black Woman Inventor Who Revolutionized Menstrual Pads,” Vice March 8 2018.