Dough Kneader blueprint
*On this date in 1884, a Black woman received a patent a Dough Kneader and Roller. From Washington, D.C., Judy W. Reed signed her name with an "X," her Patent No. # 305474. She is possibly the first African American woman to receive a patent.
Created Equal The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators
By James Michael Brodie
Copyright 1993, by Bill Adler Books, Inc.
William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York
ISBN 0-688-11536-5
