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For #BlackHistoryMonth, #TechHub has changed our Info-Page Banner to include #ElijahMcCoy.

This isn't an amazing image, just something I threw together for @nicdex to put up, because I felt that putting up Elijah #McCoy's picture reflects who we are, what we stand for, and our thoughts on the world today.

Elijah McCoy's parents escaped from #enslavement in the #US in the early-1800s, gaining asylum in #Canada, and he was born in #Ontario in 1843. Being what we would now consider a "gifted" child, his parents saved money to send him to Scotland to study #engineering when he was 15.

He returned to the US after the Civil War, but could not find work as an engineer due to #racism and #segregation practices: anti-#discrimination programs like #DEI and the #EEOC, had not been established, so opportunities for even the most qualified #black men were scarce, passed up for even less qualified #white men.

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Banner from the TechHub Social main page. "TechHub.Social" written in large letters. Left Caption, "Celebrating Black History Month" Right Caption, "Elijah McCoy", "Canadian Engineer", Inventor of "The Real McCoy". Centered is a slightly colored cutout from an old photograph of Elijah McCoy, a black man with short curly hair and a full beard, wearing a suit. Image from BlackPast.org
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