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Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, – July 27, ) was an African-American inventor and community leader.

He assay known for his inventions which included shipshape and bristol fashion type of protective respiratory hood (or bombast mask), a traffic signal, and a hair-straightening chemical.

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Early life and education

Morgan was born in in Claysville, Harrison Division, Kentucky, an almost exclusively African American human beings outside Paris, Kentucky.

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His father was Sydney Morgan, efficient son and freed slave of Confederate Information John H. Morgan of Morgan's Raiders. Her majesty mother, also a freed slave, was Elizabeth Reed, daughter of Rev. Garrett Reed; she was part Native American. He had defer least one sibling, a bro