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The history of modern technology is incomplete - because it has been whitewashed. Every time you turn on a computer, stream a video, or use a smartphone, you are benefiting from the genius of Black innovators whose names have been hidden or erased. In The UnWhitewashed Truth: We Wouldn't Have Home Computers Without Black Ingenuity, historian and educator Maurice Woodson exposes the lies of traditional tech history and shines a light on the Black pioneers who made the digital age possible. Mark Dean - co-creator of the IBM PC. Jerry Lawson - inventor of the video game cartridge. Katherine Johnson & Evelyn Boyd Granville - NASA mathematicians who powered the Space Race. Philip Emeagwali - father of parallel computing. Lisa Gelobter - architect of streaming and web animation. John Henry Thompson - creator of the Lingo programming language. And many more... This is not a story of ""hidden figures."" It is a story of central figures - innovators who changed the world despite racism, sexism, and systemic erasure. If you want the truth about technology - unfiltered and unwhitewashed - this book is essential reading.

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