Sarah E. Goode

[7] Their known children are daughters Estella,[8] Inza (or Inez),[9] Harriet (Hattie),[10] Edna,[11] and Sarah Goode.

[15] A Chicago Tribune article from September 1884 mentioned that S E Goode was exhibiting her French Flat Folding-Bed at the 32nd Annual Illinois State Fair.

It would be $35 in fees and twenty months of waiting, getting rejected, making adjustments, and resubmitting before she would finally receive the patent.

[27] Until a few decades prior to Sarah's invention, African Americans faced several barriers when applying for patents.

[29] However, in 1857, the Dred Scott decision declared that African Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens and thus could not hold office, vote, or secure patents.

However, her husband Archie’s invention of an automatic garbage box was praised by the Chicago Civic Federation and published in a local newspaper in 1895.

[34] The Paris Exposition of 1900 featured a section called The Exhibit of American Negroes, organized by Thomas J. Calloway and W. E. B.

[21] In 2012, the Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy, a science and math based school, was opened in south Chicago to honor her contributions.

P-TECH connects students to employment opportunities in promising fields, and offers a chance to take college courses in high school and to earn credits toward both—known as dual enrolment.

[39] In 2019, author Vivian Kirkfield published a children’s book about Sarah’s life as an inventor, titled “Sweet Dreams, Sarah.”[40]