Grounds Superintendent Keith Graham thought he knew everything about Detroit Memorial Park until a student looked up Elijah McCoy's grave for a report. That led Graham to dig for more information.

Elijah McCoy was the real McCoy. Maybe. The inventor held 57 United States patents, mostly related to the railway. His inventions, which were not headline-making outside the field of steam engines ...

In the case of playwright Andrew Moodie's work, THE REAL MCCOY, we're treated to a biographical account of forgotten black inventor Elijah McCoy (1844-1929).