Meet Lewis Latimer, the African American who enlightened Thomas Edison

Image: A photo of Lewis Latimer with an added drawn graphic of a lightbulb.

grist.com - February 11 2015 - Brentin Mock

We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled programming on gentrification to bring you this Black History Month profile on Lewis H. Latimer, the African-American renaissance man who in the late 19th century helped not only invent the lightbulb, but also create the electric industry as we know it today. Yes, it’s common knowledge that Thomas Edison was the lightbulb’s inventor.

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