Garrett Augustus Morgan was born March 4th, 1877 in Claysville, Kentucky. He was the seventh of eleven children born to Sydney and Elizabeth Morgan, who had both been slaves.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

He spent much of his life devising ways to change our lives for the better. There was the hair straightener and the zig-zag stitching attachment for the sewing machine. There was the gas mask and ...

“His name was Garrett Augustus Morgan, and he was born here, in Bourbon County, in an area of the town called Claysville,” said Fields.

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 ...

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 ...