Assistive feeding device (WWII rehabilitation): Identify the African-American woman inventor and physical therapist. Full question: This African-American woman physical therapist worked with soldiers disabled in World War II. She invented a device that helped the disabled to eat by delivering food through a tube to a mouthpiece. Who is she? Choose the correct option.
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Difficulty: Easy
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Correct Answer: Bessie Blount Griffin
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- Bessie Blount Griffin: African-American physical therapist and inventor who worked with WWII amputees and devised an assistive feeding device that delivered food through a tube to a mouthpiece.
Why the other options are incorrect Annie Malone / Madam C. J. Walker — Pioneers in hair-care entrepreneurship. Sarah Goode — Early African-American woman patent holder (folding cabinet bed).
Final Answer Bessie Blount Griffin.