The First File · Episode 001
They drove him out.
He made sure no one else vanished.
The third African American admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy, driven out by violence he was blamed for. He answered erasure with evidence — spending decades inside the U.S. Patent Office building the first great record of Black inventors, so their names could never be dismissed as absence.
He made the list. He never got to finish it. That's the work.
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Henry E. Baker
The Record Survived
Not Forgotten
