On this day in Black history in 1878, J.R.Winters received the first of three patents for his fire ladder improvements. ORIGIN Joseph Richard Winters was born in Leesburg, VA to a Black brickmaker and a Shawnee mother in 1816. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1840 and worked as a laborer. Winters had a number […]

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