With the consent of the Patent Office, Baker sent out some 8,000 letters to more than 12,000 registered patent attorneys in the United States, along with company presidents, newspaper editors and prominent African Americans. While at the US Patent Office, he noticed that there was a lack of knowledge and awareness about Black inventors among his colleagues and the general public. He withdrew prior to graduating because of the treatment at the school.īaker joined the United States Patent Office in 1877 as a copyist and rose through the ranks to Second Assistant Examiner by 1902. McClennan – the first and second African Americans to attend the Naval Academy, respectively – Baker was subjected to racial insults and physical violence at the hands of southern whyte students and staff. Barry while he was living in Columbia, and was sworn in as a cadet midshipman on September 25, 1874. He graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1881 at the top of his class, and completed post-graduate work there in 1883.īaker was nominated by Congressman Henry W. After attending the Naval Academy for two years he completed his education at the Ben-Hyde Benton School of Technology in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1879. What we know about early African American innovators comes mostly from the work of Henry Baker, who was dedicated to uncovering and publicizing the contributions of Black inventors.īaker was born on September 1, 1857, in Columbia, Mississippi, and attended the Columbus Union Academy there. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where he would chronicle the history of African-American inventors. was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy.
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