Roads Less Travelled - Minority Technical Achievement in the United States

How we think about invention tells us a good deal about who we are and what we value as a society. The longstanding ideal of American inventiveness-the belief that Americans are a uniquely enterprising and creative people-contains assumptions that historically functioned to exclude and discount the contributions of marginalized peoples.
In this presentation Antique Wireless Museum Historian Roderick Thomson, KD2EBN, discusses the interplay between Minority technical achievement in the United States against the backdrop of social, as well as institutional discrimination.
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