Sarah E. Goode — Inventor · Businesswoman · 1855–1905
Born enslaved. Died a patent holder.
Freed after the Civil War, Goode opened a furniture store in Chicago and invented a folding cabinet bed that gave working families in cramped tenements room to live — becoming one of the first Black women to receive a U.S. patent.
U.S. Patent No. 322,177 · July 14, 1885.