Edward Chow, an Army veteran and Black-owned tech founder who founded his company in Los Angeles in the 1960s, passed away at the age of 83.
According to the Kansas City Star Chow died of lung cancer last month, leaving behind his wife, Maggie Robinson, four children, two brothers, two sisters, and a slew of other relatives and friends.
Chow and his seven siblings were raised by their Black mother and Chinese father in Greenville, Mississippi, during the 1930s, and faced overt racism, before starting his company in the the 1960s.