No William Otis was not African American and he was actually an American inventor of the Steam Shovel. He was born on September 20, 1813 and he died 13 November 1839 he was 26 when he had died.(1813-09-20)
1967 Albert William Johnson is awarded the first dealership from a major automaker to an African American. He opens his Oldsmobile dealership in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Chicago.
William A. Deitz was an African American inventor who secured a patent for women's boots with the opening placed at the back.
Otis Williams was born on October 30, 1941
He was born on a plantation in Jamestown, VA.
William Du Bois ;)W.E.B. DuBois
Kwabena Boahen and Otis Boykin are two African American scientists who contributed to engineering. Otis invented the artificial heart pacemaker.
otis boykin
Otis Boykin
William G. Otis was born in 1946.
William Otis Lillibridge was born in 1878.
William Otis Lillibridge died in 1909.
William Otis died on 1839-11-13.
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African-American
William Hersey Otis Haliburton was born in 1767.
William Hersey Otis Haliburton died in 1829.
Popular Rock and Roll singer Otis Redding, in l967 or thereabouts.