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Black History Month: Elijah McCoy's Invention Coined The Phrase...

Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, in 1843 to George and Mildred McCoy.

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Michael
West Columbia, SC
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#1
Feb 28, 2008
 
This information is wrong, and is doing nothing but promoting cultural myth.

http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/mccoy/

http://www.textbookleague.org/35fake.htm

http://www.textbookleague.org/102mcd.htm
Mr Giblets
UK
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Feb 28, 2008
 
as a bit of a railway historian , I know that the Roscoe and Ramsbottom lubricators were in use long before the date claimed for the McCoy "invention".

see the articles quoted above. Ask any railway buff.
mrs caramel
Lagrange, GA
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Mar 20, 2008
 
yall need to get some interesting info.......!!!
mrs caramel
Lagrange, GA
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#4
Mar 20, 2008
 
hpoe to get more info.
killa smurth
New York, NY
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Apr 10, 2008
 
need inprovement
jeff
Nanaimo, Canada
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#7
Apr 11, 2008
 
what history? what have negroes contribruted to world progress?...a liberal invention for political correctness!
mr Giblets
UK
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Apr 12, 2008
 
jeff wrote:
what history? what have negroes contribruted to world progress?...a liberal invention for political correctness!
some think that they invented airplanes, when Egypt was run by blacks(!!!!!!). They didn't even invent wheel spinners and Air Jordans - the whites have had to do everything for them.
Mixed Zimbabwean
London, UK
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Apr 16, 2008
 
mr Giblets wrote:
<quoted text>some think that they invented airplanes, when Egypt was run by blacks(!!!!!!). They didn't even invent wheel spinners and Air Jordans - the whites have had to do everything for them.
You pop up everwhere spewing your hatred those FAKE AFRICANS = those cursed Afrikaners will sure love you you're just like a them.
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Henderson, NV
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Apr 16, 2008
 
Mr Giblets wrote:
as a bit of a railway historian , I know that the Roscoe and Ramsbottom lubricators were in use long before the date claimed for the McCoy "invention".
see the articles quoted above. Ask any railway buff.
he must have been a Scott with thst name...
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Henderson, NV
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Apr 16, 2008
 
Or Maybe a Sioux.....
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Henderson, NV
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Apr 16, 2008
 
Ot george Washington's adopted son since george Wash. had no Children...
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Henderson, NV
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Apr 16, 2008
 
yea he looks like he might have red hair somewhere...
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Apr 16, 2008
 
Is there an identity crisis here?
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Henderson, NV
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Apr 16, 2008
 
What was Mildred's last name?
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Henderson, NV
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Apr 16, 2008
 
Was it Lumbeedoodoo?
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#17
Apr 16, 2008
 
Or relation to England's Brown...
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