Nov 1 |
John H. Johnson published the first issue of Ebony Magazine, 1945. |
Nov 2 |
President Ronald Reagan signed the legislation creating a federal Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, 1983. |
Nov 3 |
John Baxter Taylor, Jr., the first African American to win an Olympic Gold medal, was born in Washington, D. C., 1883. |
Nov 4 |
Barack Obama was elected the first African American President of the United States, 2008. |
Nov 5 |
Shirley Chisolm of Brooklyn, N.Y., becomes the first African American woman elected to Congress, 1968. |
Nov 6 |
James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, widely regarded as the Black national anthem, 1901. |
Nov 7 |
Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American to be elected governor in the United States, 1989. |
Nov 8 |
Crystal B. Fauset, elected state representative in PA, becoming the first African American woman to serve in a state legislature, 1938. |
Nov 9 |
Benjamin Banneker, mathematician, inventor, astronomer, surveyor and almanac author, was born in Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, 1731. |
Nov 10 |
Benjamin Thornton received patent number 1,831,331 for an Apparatus for automatically recording telephone messages, 1931. |
Nov 11 |
George R. Carruthers awarded patent 3,478,216 for his Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation, 1969. |
Nov 12 |
The National Negro Opera Company was founded in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania by Mary Cardwell Dawson, 1941. |
Nov 13 |
Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedienne and activist, was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in New York City, 1955. |
Nov 14 |
Condoleezza Rice, professor, diplomat and national security expert, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, 1954. |
Nov 15 |
Lydia Newman of New York City received patent number 614,335 for a new and improved hair brush, 1898. |
Nov 16 |
William Christopher “W.C.” Handy, hall of fame blues composer and musician, was born in Florence, Alabama, 1873. |
Nov 17 |
Samuel L. Younge, Jr., first African American college student to die in the Civil Rights Movement, was born in Tuskegee, AL, 1944. |
Nov 18 |
Harold W. Moon, one of only two people to be enshrined in the Canadian and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was born in Los Angeles, CA, 1956. |
Nov 19 |
Annette Gordon-Reed, first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for History “The Hemingses of Monticello….” born in Livingston, TX, 1958. |
Nov 20 |
Dominique M. Dawes, member of the first U.S. women’s team to win an Olympic Gold in gymnastics, was born in Silver Spring, MD, 1976. |
Nov 21 |
George Branham, III, the first African American to win a Professional Bowlers Association title, was born in Detroit, Michigan, 1962. |
Nov 22 |
William J. Powell, the first African American to design, build and operate his own golf course, was born in Greenville, Alabama, 1916. |
Nov 23 |
John L. Love, received patent 594,114 for a pencil sharpener that used a crank to sharpen pencils, 1897. |
Nov 24 |
Oscar Palmer Robertson “The Big O”, hall of fame basketball player, was born in Charlotte, Tennessee, 1938. |
Nov 25 |
Percy Sledge, hall of fame R&B and soul performer, was born in Leighton, Alabama, 1940. |
Nov 26 |
Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women’s rights activist, died, 1883. |
Nov 27 |
James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix, hall of fame guitarist, singer and songwriter, was born in Seattle, Washington, 1942. |
Nov 28 |
Berry Gordy, Jr., hall of fame record producer and founder of Motown Records, was born in Detroit, Michigan, 1929. |
Nov 29 |
Coleman Alexander Young, the first African American Mayor of Detroit, Michigan, died, 1997. |
Nov 30 |
James Arthur Baldwin, novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist, died, 1987. |