BLACK HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN NOVEMBER!
NOVEMBER 1, 1945:
The very first issue of EBONY Magazine was published by John H. Johnson.
NOVEMBER 2, 1903:
Maggie Lee Walker became the first Black woman to head a U.S. bank when St. Luke Penny Savings Bank opened in Richmond, VA.
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NOVEMBER 3, 1992:
Carol Mosely Braun of Illinois made history be becoming the first and only African-American woman elected to the United States Senate.
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NOVEMBER 4, 1983:
Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on or close to this day.
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NOVEMBER 5, 1968:
Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress.
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NOVEMBER 6, 1960:
Sharon Pratt Dixon (now Kelly) became the first woman elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
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NOVEMBER 7, 1989:
Lawrence Douglas Wilder became the first Black governor in the U.S.
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NOVEMBER 8, 1966:
Edward William Brooke III became the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote when he was elected as a Republican.
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NOVEMBER 9, 1868:
Howard University's Medical School opened with eight students and five faculty members.
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NOVEMBER 10, 1957:
Charlie Sifford became the first African American to win a major golf tournament when he won the Long Beach Open.
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NOVEMBER 11, 1979:
The Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History opened to the public.
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NOVEMBER 12, 1775:
Gen. George Washington decreed that no black, free or enslaved, could be recruited to fight.
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NOVEMBER 13, 1951:
Janet Collins, the first African-American prima ballerina, broke a color barrier after her performance in a production of "Aida".
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NOVEMBER 14, 1960:
At the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school.
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NOVEMBER 15, 1894:
The Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing was founded for African Americans by surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2001:
Nigerian model and student, Agbani Darego, became the first woman from sub-Saharan African to win the Miss World crown. She was eighteen years old when she was crowned.
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NOVEMBER 17, 1980:
WHMM-TV (Howard Multimedia) in Washington, D.C. went on air for the first time.
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NOVEMBER 18, 1992:
The "Malcolm X" biopic, produced by Spike Lee, opened in theaters.
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NOVEMBER 19, 1983:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fo the Los Angeles Lakers became the second player in NBA history to score 30,000 points.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1923:
The U.S. Patent Office granted a patent to Garrett Morgan for his three-position traffic signal.
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NOVEMBER 21, 1934:
Ella Fitzgerald performed at Harlem's Apollo Theater for the first Amateur night. She was seventeen years old.
NOVEMBER 22, 1986:
Mike Tyson became the youngest heavywieght champ in the world.
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NOVEMBER 23, 1897:
John Lee Love received a patent for inventing the portable Pencil Sharpener.
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NOVEMBER 24, 2001:
Terry Porter of the San Antonio Spurs became the only player in NBA history to record 18,000 points, 7,000 assits, 1,000 steals, aand 1,000 3-pointers.
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NOVEMBER 25, 1922:
Marcus Garvey gave a speech to explain the objectives of the Univeral Negro Improvement ASsociation, the organizaiton he beleived would lead the worldwide movement toward black liberation.
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NOVEMBER 26, 2013:
The United States Postal Service issued the Kwanza stamp in the "Holiday Celebrations" series.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2008:
Aretha Franklin earned the number one spot on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers list.
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NOVEMBER 28, 1961:
Ernie Davis became the first African American to be awarded the Heisman Trophy as college football's top player of the year.
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NOVEMBER 29, 1997:
Eddie Robinson coached his last football game at Grambling State University.
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NOVEMBER 30, 1711:
On Wall Street, in New YOrk City, a marked that auctioned enslaved people fo African ancestry was established by a Common Council Law.
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