Author: Andrew Moodie
Year: 2006
Geography: Americas > Northern America > Canada
Synopsis: Elijah McCoy, born in Canada to runaway American slaves, showed so much promise in school that he won a scholarship to study mechanical engineering at Edinburgh University. McCoy moved to the US, where no one believed a black man could be an engineer and so he was set to stoking boilers. Nevertheless, McCoy devised a solution to one of the greatest problems facing steam locomotion that was sold worldwide with the marketers’ proviso that McCoy’s race be concealed.
Publication: Moodie, A. (2006). The Real McCoy. In The Real McCoy (pp. 2–118). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press.
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