"Sears hired him to join the product design and testing laboratory after his application to work for the company was denied a few years prior, all on the sole purpose of his race. From there, the rest is black history."
Charles Harrison worked on over 700 products including baby cribs, see-through measuring cups, trash cans, sewing machines, electric mixers, etc.
He "became the first African American designer awarded the Lifetime Achievement National Design Award by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a recognition that cemented him as a respected icon of industrial design and an unsung hero of household products."
photo: blackenterprise
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