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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

She lived there, as did their brother George, in a section of town called “Little Liberia” that had been founded nearly a century earlier by free Blacks. Latimer weighed in with a hearty endorsement of this viewpoint (which would today be called respectability politics ) in no small part because he was a paragon of these virtues.

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