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Gr 2–4—The son of freed slaves, Garrett Morgan grew up on a sharecropper's farm, an environment in which necessity inspired ingenuity, due to the lack of funds and the constant need for better working tools and equipment. At 14, after a childhood spent creating and fixing, Morgan left the segregated South in search of greater opportunities. By 1901, he had developed and sold the rights to his first invention, a sewing machi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More