Comment on Patricia Bath
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From her Wikipedia article:
The device was completed in 1986 after Bath conducted research on lasers in Berlin and patented in 1988, making her the first African-American woman to receive a patent for a medical purpose.
This bit of trivia is actually what surprised me most. “A medical purpose” is so general, and 1988 is so late by comparison.
Ruby Bridges–the little girl featured in maybe the most famous photo of desegregation, being walked home from school by US marshals, the photo that inspired Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With”–she’s still alive. And not super old, either; she’ll turn 72 this September.
“The past is never dead; it isn’t even past.”
Damn, it looked for a second like that US Marshal on the right was wearing a shockingly ahead-of-its-time earring on his left ear.
That’s crazy. It’s a Bluetooth earpiece.
The Loving v Virginia Supreme Court ruling, legalizing mixed race marriage, happened in 1968. I was 14 years old, so not exactly ancient history.
Yeah considering all the multi racial dance videos of the 90s it’s easy to forget how segregated the world still was
Is*
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
It’s easy to forget sometimes how recent segregation still is. It reminds me of this letter from Emory university dated 1959, less than 75 years ago, denying an applicant for being “a member of the negro race.” They only apologized for it about five years ago.
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Here’s a good 2021 article from Emory University Magazine discussing Hood and his application.