Garrett morgan biography for kids video
Garrett morgan biography for kids video
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Garrett Morgan was an African-American inventor who invented two very different and important things: the gas mask and the traffic signal.
During his long life, he also became one of the most recognized and respected African-Americans in the country.
Morgan was born on March 4, 1877, in Paris, Kentucky. His parents were former slaves.
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As a child, he attended school and also worked on the family farm. When he was an older teen, he moved to Cincinnati to find work. He found it as an apprentice to a handyman, who paid young Garrett enough to hire a tutor and continue his studies.
When he was 18, he moved to Cleveland and found work repairing sewing machines and making clothes.
It was also in Cleveland that he found the woman he would marry, Madge Nelson. They married in 1896 and were married for two years before getting divorced.
Morgan made enough money to open his own sewing machine repair shop, which he did in 1907.
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