November 1, 1991 - Judge Clarence Thomas
is formally seated at the
106th associate justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court.
November 2, 1954 - Charles C. Diggs elected
Michigan's first African
American congressman.
November 3, 1981 - Thirman L. Milner elected
mayor of Hartford,
Connecticut, becoming first Black mayor in
New England.
November 4, 1879 - Thomas Elkins patents
refrigeration apparatus.
November 5, 1968 - Shirley Chisolm of
Brooklyn, N.Y., becomes the
first African American woman elected to
Congress.
November 6, 1901 - James Weldon Johnson and
J. Rosamond Johnson
compose "Lift Every Voice and Sing", widely
regarded as the Black
national anthem.
November 7, 1989 - L. Douglas Wilder is
elected governor of
Virginia,, becoming the nation's first Black
governor since the
Reconstruction.
November 8, 1938 - Crystal Bird Faucet is
elected state
representative in Pennsylvania, becoming the
first Black woman to
serve in a state legislature.
November 9, 1731 - Mathematician, urban
planner and inventor Benjamin
Banneker born.
November 10, 1983 - Wilson Goode elected,
becoming Philadelphia's
first African American mayor.
November 11, 1989 - Civil Rights Memorial is
dedicated in Montgomery,
Ala.
November 12, 1941 - Madame Lillian Evanto
founds the National Negro
Opera Company.
November 13, 1894 - Albert C. Richardson
patents casket-lowering
device.
November 14, 1915 - Booker T. Washington,
educator and writer, died.
November 15, 1881 - Payton Johnson patents
swinging chair.
November 16, 1981 - Pam Johnson named
publisher of the Ithaca (NY)
Journal, becoming the first African American
woman to head a daily
newspaper.
November 17, 1980 - WHHM, the first African
American-operated radio
station, goes on the air at Howard
University.
November 18, 1787 - Abolitionist and women's
right activist Sojourner
Truth born.
November 19, 1953 - Roy Campanella named
Most Valuable Player in
National League Baseball for the second
time..
November 20, 1865 - Howard Seminary (later
Howard University) founded
in Washington, D.C.
November 21, 1893 - Granville T. Woods
patents electric railway
conduit.
November 22, 1930 - Elijah Muhammed
establishes the Nation of Islam.
November 23, 1897 - A.J. Beard patents the
"Jenny Coupler", still in
use today to connect railroad cars. John L.
Love patents pencil
sharpener.
November 24, 1868 - Pianist Scott Joplin,
the "Father of Ragtime",
born.
November 25, 1975 - Suriname gains
independence from the Netherlands.
November 26, 1970 - Charles Gordone becomes
the first Black
playwright to receive the Pulitzer Prize
(for No Place to Be Somebody).
November 27, 1990 - Charles Johnson awarded
National Book Award for
fiction for Middle Passage.
November 28, 1960 - Novelist Richard Wright
dies.
November 29, 1908 - Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall born.
November 30, 1897 - J.A. Sweeting patents
cigarette-rolling device.
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