Everyone who has enjoyed the use of their programmable VCR, DVR, TIVO, and television remote controllers owes a thank you to Mr. Joseph N. Jackson. He is a living legend, an inventor, scientist, businessman, humanitarian and Co-founder of the Black Inventions Museum, Inc. To date, he continues to work on ideas that will enhance the lives of BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. Joseph Jackson is the fourth of eight children born to Ernest and Octavia Jackson in Harvey, “Jefferson Parish”, Louisiana. At the age of 17 he went to work as an oil field tool maintenance helper. He was accepted in the United States Army at the age of 18. He went to television repair school at night, and later owned and operated a Radio and Television Repair Shop part-time for 7 years in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His early efforts led to the precursor of the V-Chip, technology that is used in the television industry to block out violent and objectionable programs that could be seen by young children. Mr. Jackson is the creator of the Programmable Television Receiver Controllers and other innovative devices for the television industry. Joseph Jackson is the holder of at least 6 issued U.S. Patents in the area of telecommunications and Fertility Prediction Devices for females, as well as several copyrights, trademarks, and Pending Patents in the area or Aircraft security and Tracking Systems. BISM IS HONORED TO SALUTE DR. JOSEPH N. JACKSON 20

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UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN TRAIN ENGINEER Edwina Justus (July 11, 1943) is a African-American trailblazer engineer who is best known for being Union Pacific's first black female train engineer. At a young age, Edwina's role as a change-maker began when she became the first African-American girl to attend Brown Park School, and she was the only person of color in the entire school. In search of better opportunities, Edwina applied for a job at Union Pacific. After her application was denied, she enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. When she applied at Union Pacific for the second time, her application was a success. Justus began her career at U.P. in 1973 as a clerk at one of its Omaha facilities. Edwina Justus was one of five black women who worked in the Omaha office. In 1976 she applied for an engineer opening in North Platte, Neb. She got the job and became UP’s first black female engineer at the age of 34. North Platte was a big operation. Union Pacific is the largest railroad in the United States. “When I received the offer in North Platte, Nebraska, my dad encouraged me to take it.” However, the work environment wasn't supportive. Edwina endured racial slurs and the belief that she couldn't do good work as a woman. But she was not deterred. She used her wit and performance to excel in her career. Justus worked 22 years before retiring in 1998. She hauled items such as livestock, automobiles and airplane wings to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Denver, Colorado, never taking for granted the beauty of a sunset or quiet night. “Railroading isn’t easy, but I didn’t let anyone bully me and I always stood up for myself,” Justus said. In 2018, Justus was honored in a Durham Museum exhibit. The exhibit shares the diverse experiences of 12 Nebraska women through time.

Subject: A little Louisiana history lesson . . . If Hurricane Katrina causing the levees to break in New Orleans is the only thing you know about Louisiana , here are a few more interesting facts about the Bayou State: * Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the nation at 450 feet. * The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans was the largest enclosed stadium in the world when it was built and for two decades thereafter. * The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest over-water bridge in the world at 23.87 miles. * Louisiana 's 6.5 million acres of wetlands are the greatest wetland area in America. * The oldest city in the Louisiana Purchase Territory is Natchitoches, Louisiana founded in 1714. * The first bottler of Coca-Cola, Joseph Biedenharn, lived in Monroe, Louisiana (he first bottled Coke across the river in Vicksburg, MS), and was eventually one of the founders of Delta Air Lines, initially called Delta Air Service. * Delta Airlines got its start in Monroe, Louisiana when County Agent, C.E. Woolman, decided to try dusting the Boll weevil that was destroying the cotton crops in the Mississippi River Delta from an airplane. The airline began as the crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters, Incorporated. That company was founded on May 30, 1924, in Macon, Georgia, and moved to Monroe, Louisiana, in 1925. They flew a Huff-Daland Duster, the first true crop duster, designed to combat the boll weevil infestation of those cotton crops in the delta. * Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was the largest historically black university in America between 1970 and 1990. * Baton Rouge was the site of an American Revolutionary related battle outside of the original 13 colonies, in which Spanish forces defeated British forces. * The formal transfer of the Louisiana Purchase was made at the Cabildo building in New Orleans on December 20, 1803. * The staircase at Chrétien Point, in Sunset, Louisiana was copied for Tara in "Gone with the Wind." * Louisiana is the No. 1 producer of crawfish, alligators and shallots in America. * Louisiana produces 24 percent of the nation's salt, the most in America. * Much of the world's food, coffee, and oil pass through the Port of New Orleans. * Tabasco, a Louisiana product, holds the second oldest food trademark in the U.S. Patent Office. * Steen's Syrup Mill in Abbeville, Louisiana is the world's largest syrup plant producing sugar cane syrup. * America's oldest rice mill is in New Iberia, Louisiana at KONRIKO Co. * The International Joke Telling Contest is held annually in Opelousas, Louisiana. * LSU (The Ole War Skule) in Baton Rouge has the distinction of contributing the most officers to WW II after the U.S. military academies. * The Louisiana Hayride radio show helped Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash achieve stardom. It was broadcast from KWKH Radio in Shreveport Louisiana from 1948 to 1960. * The term Uncle Sam was coined on the wharfs of New Orleans before Louisiana was a U.S. territory as goods labeled U.S. were from "Uncle Sam." * The American version of the game of craps was brought first to New Orleans in 1813 as betting was a common activity on the wharves. It was a derivative of the European version and was begun there by Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, a wealthy gambler and politician descended from colonial Louisiana landowners. * When states had their own currency, the Louisiana Dix (French for ten) was a favored currency for trade. English speakers called them Dixies and coined the term Dixieland. * New Orleans is the home of the very first pharmacy in America at 514 Chartres Street in the French Quarter. These early medical mixtures became known as cocktails (guess they were good for what ails ya?), coining yet another term. This bit of history is due to Louis Joseph Dufilho, Jr. of New Orleans, who became America’s first licensed pharmacist and opened the shop in 1823 that is now home to the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum. * New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz, the only true American art form. Jazz gave birth to the Blues and Rock and Roll music. #Louisiana

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