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Inventor and women’s rights advocate Lyda Newman is best known for a newly-designed hairbrush patent and her effort to fight for women’s rights; particularly, women’s suffrage.

Newman was born in 1885 to a steelworker and a housewife in Ohio. Little is known about her childhood.

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Her parents wanted her to gain new experiences and have an opportunity for a better life, so they supported her move to New York City although the date of that move is unknown.

Newman’s hairbrush was patented in 1898 when she was 13 years old. Newman’s interest in making this newly designed hairbrush began when she would do her hair and started doing other women’s hair after moving to New York.

In search to find a more efficient way to fix her clients’ hair, Newman invented the new hairbrush style. By getting it patented, she became the third black woman ever to receive a patent.

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