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No surprise, it's almost all or entirely bullshit.
Just as an example, I looked up first helicopter, and this was the first thing that popped up. Igor Sikorsky, in 1939. Black man Paul E. Williams was two months old. There was also the Cornu helicopter even earlier in 1907.
As far as I can tell in regards to Williams, he was credited as "inventing" the first "useful" helicopter. Or...uh, "components" of it. Maybe. There's no source as far as I can tell. He worked in the vicinity and time frame of the Lockheed Model 186, while being black. No official mention of him in relation to the helicopter seems to exist.
And most claims come from BlackCultureNews and...and I'm not kidding here, "Africa's Wakanda," a Facebook group. It really does seem to be a case of "a black dude worked at a company at the same time a cool product was produced, therefore he invented everything, trust me bro."
I tried, icecream and guitar and no idea how they came to the conclusion that a black guy invented it.