DECEMBER 31, 2017, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: SAMUEL MOMODU Alfred L. Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia, just after the end of the American Civil War. He attended local schools and worked for his father in the carpentry trade as […]

ALFRED L. CRALLE (1866–1920)