December 1, 1987 - Carrie Saxon Perry
begins her term as the mayor of
Hartford, Conn., becoming first Black woman
mayor of a major U.S. city.
December 2, 1884 - Granville T. Woods
patents telephone transmitter.
December 3, 1847 - Frederick Douglass
publishes first issue of North
Star.
December 4, 1909 - The New York Amsterdam
News is founded by James
A. Anderson.
December 5, 1955 - Martin Luther King, Jr.
organizes Birmingham bus
boycott, marking the beginning of the Civil
Rights Movement.
December 6, 1932 Richard B. Spikes patents
automatic gearshift. 1936
- Richard Francis Jones becomes first
African American certified in
urology.
December 7, 1941 - Dorie Miller, U.S. Navy,
shoots down four Japanese
planes during attach on Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1925 - Entertainer Sammy Davis
Jr. born.
December 9, 1872 - P.B.S. Pinchback of
Louisiana becomes first
African American governor in U.S.
December 10, 1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
becomes first Black awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 11, 1938 - Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner
born.
December 12, 1899 George F. Grant patents
golf tree. 1950- Jesse
Leroy Brown becomes first African American
naval officer to die in
combat. 1992 - President Bill
Clinton's Cabinet and White House
appointments include five Black men and one
Black woman.
December 13, 1944 - First African American
servicewomen sworn into
the WAVES.
December 14, 1829 - John Mercer Langston,
congressman and founder of
Howard University Law Department, born.
December 15, 1883 - William A. Hinton, first
African American on
Harvard Medical School faculty and developer
of the Hinton test to
detect syphilis, born. 1994 - Ruth J.
Simmons named president of
Smith College.
December 16, 1976 - Andrew Young nominated
by President Jimmy Carter
to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
December 17, 1802 - Teacher and minister
Henry Adams born.
December 18, 1971 - Rev. Jesse Jackson
founds Operation PUSH.
December 19, 1875 - Educator Carter G.
Woodson, "father of Black
history", born.
December 20, 1860 - South Carolina secedes
from the Union.
December 21, 1911 - Baseball legend Josh
Gibson born.
December 22, 1943 - W.E. B. DuBois becomes
the first African American
elected to the National Institute of Arts
and Letters.
December 23, 1869 - Madam C.J. Walker,
businesswoman and first
African American woman millionaire, born.
December 24, 1832 - Charter granted to the
Georgia Infirmary, the
fist Black hospital.
December 25, 1760 - Jupiter Hammon becomes
first published Black poet
with his poem, "An Evening Thought".
December 26, 1894 - Jean Toomer, author of
Cane, born.
December 27, 1862 - African Methodist
Episcopal Zion church founded
in New Bern, North Carolina.
December 28, 1905 - Earl "Fatha" Hines,
"Father of Modern Jazz
Piano", born.
December 29, 1924 - Author, sportswriter A.S.
"Doc" Young born.
December 30, 1842 - Congressman Josiah Walls
born.
December 31, 1930 - Odetta, blues and folk
singer, born.
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