Few inventors seem to truly care about other people the way that Garrett Augustus Morgan did. His inventions saved many lives, including those of a few people who were rescued by Garrett himself ...

Born in rural Kentucky at the tail end of Reconstruction in 1877, Garrett Augustus Morgan was part of a large family, the son of a preacher's daughter and an ex-slave.

As part of Black History Month, we remember Garrett Augustus Morgan, a Cleveland inventor and businessman best known for creating the modern-day gas mask and traffic light. Morgan, the son of ...

She’s the author of the biography, “Garrett Augustus Morgan: Businessman, Inventor, Good Citizen.” “He demonstrated the importance of having faith and confidence in yourself, of using your ...

Garrett Augustus Morgan died at the Cleveland Clinic on July 27, 1963, “after a lingering illness,” reported the popular African American newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier. “He was 87 years ...

On Nov. 20, 2023, it will be exactly 100 years ago to the very day that Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. received a patent for the precursor to today’s traffic light. It was on Nov. 20, 1923 that the ...

The seventh of 11 children, born in 1877 to Sidney and Elizabeth Morgan in Paris, Ky., Garrett Augustus Morgan was a kid who showed aptitude and a man who never stopped striving for a better life.

“His name was Garrett Augustus Morgan, and he was born here, in Bourbon County, in an area of the town called Claysville,” said Fields. Claysville is where Morgan most likely did some of his ...

GARRETT AUGUSTUS Morgan knew he had to do something to improve traffic safety when he saw a car collide with a horse-drawn carriage at a Cleveland intersection in the early 1920s. So he invented ...

Garrett Morgan would go on to invent a safety hood, a variety of Black hair care products, and most notably — a three-way traffic signal. Oftentimes, Black inventors are reduced to the sum of their ...

MAYBE if Garrett Augustus Morgan had not been at that intersection on that summer day, his own crossroads would have been different, his path altered. *No charge for four weeks then billed as $19 ...