This is Garrett Morgan, famous African American inventor and creator of the yellow traffic safety signal. He was born in 1877 in Kentucky, one of eleven children. With only an elementary education, he struck off for Ohio to better his fortunes as a sewing machine repair man. By 1914, he had patented a breathing device in the form of a canvas hood - a precursor to the modern gas mask. The first Black man in Cleveland to own a car, he was driven to create the three way traffic signal in 1923…