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Cutting Through History: The Ingenious Invention of John Albert Burr
By Bo Tefu, California Black Media
Outgoing Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-12) expressed deep gratitude to her constituents and marked the end of her 26-year career in public service.
Lee, who is succeeded by Lateefah Simon, a civil rights and racial justice activist, praised people in her community for their support. She also highlighted her dedication to promoting peace, justice, and equity.
“Together, we have raised our voices and pushed the envelope for peace, justice and equity. It has been the honor of a lifetime to provide constituent services, deliver federal investments to my district, speak out, and often times be the only one to take tough votes against the tide. I have, and will continue to, fight for working families, the middle class, low income and poor people,” said Lee On her final day in Congress.
Throughout her tenure, Lee earned a reputation as a principled lawmaker known for taking bold and sometimes unpopular stances. One of her defining moments came in 2001 when she was the sole
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Biography of John Albert Burr
If you have a manual push mower today, it likely uses design elements from 19th Century Black American inventor John Albert Burr's patented rotary blade lawn mower.
On May 9, 1899, John Albert Burr patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower. Burr designed a lawn mower with traction wheels and a rotary blade that was designed to not easily get plugged up from lawn clippings. John Albert Burr also improved the design of lawn mowers by making it possible to mow closer to building and wall edges. You can view U.S. patent 624,749 issued to John Albert Burr.
Life of an Inventor
John Burr was born in Maryland in 1848, and was thus a teenager during the Civil War. His parents were enslaved and were later freed, and he may also have been enslaved until Emancipation which happened when he was 17. He didn't escape from manual labor, though, as he worked as a field hand during his teenage years.
But his talent was recognized and wealthy Black activists ensured he was able to attend engineering classes at a private university. He put his mechan
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John Burr
For the American abolitionist, see John Pierre Burr.
John P. BurrRBA (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil and watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.[1]
At the age of fourteen, Burr began painting portraits of well-to-do people in small Scottish towns. After study at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, Burr painted in Edinburgh until 1861. That year, he and his younger brother Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835–1899) established themselves as painters in London. Burr first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862 and worked in London until 1892. During his career in London, he exhibited 18 paintings at the Royal Academy, 1 at the British Institution, 3 at the Grosvenor Gallery, 35 at the Society of British Artists, 18 at the Royal Water Colour Society, and numerous paintings in other locations in London.[2] He also exhibited in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester. His works include The Peepshow and The 5 November. Burr was elected in 1875 a member of the Society of British Artists and i
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