[Calvin Cooledge]

My daughter's high school US history book had an entire page about Harriett Tubman and one sentence about the Wright Brothers.

Question: which of those historic figures had a bigger impact on the lives of African-Americans?

Hint: It's the ones whose invention is used daily by thousands of black Americans.

[Monterrosa-24]

There is a whole movement to discredit the Wright Brothers by giving other flight pioneers more credit and the Wright’s less credit. But the Wrights had it right approaching the problems of controlling the pitch, roll, and yaw of an aircraft with remarkable minds and systematic work and improvements. Those guys deserve a mountain of credit for what they pulled off at the end of 1903.