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Garrett Morgan Saved Lives After a 1916 Explosion, But Some Refused to Call Him a Hero
For Garrett Morgan, this epitaph on his gravestone at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland is befitting of any number of ...
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Garrett Morgan’s long road to inventing the modern-day traffic light
Garrett Morgan was born in 1877 in Paris, Kentucky. His parents were Sydney Morgan and Elizabeth Reed, who were both formerly enslaved. Morgan left his family’s farm at the age of 14 and moved to ...