December 13: Baseball Hero Larry Doby was born,
December 13: Baseball Hero Larry Doby was born,
December 13: Baseball Hero Larry Doby was born,
December 12: Kenya claimed their independence, 1963
December 11: Raven-Symoné is born
December 10: the first African-American Received the Nobel Peace Prize, 1950
December 9: The First African American Photographer to be receive a Guggenheim Honor,, born in 1919
December 8: NAACP filed first suit to equalize salaries for Black Teachers
December 7: American Contemporary Writer Richard Wright wins the Spingarn Award, 1941
December 6: First Black Internationally Known Opera Singer Dies, 1967
December 5: Mary McLeod Bethune created the National Council of Negro Women, 1935
December 4: Tyra Banks was Born
December 3: The first Black ‘Miss World’ was Jennifer Josephine Hosten, 1970
December 2: Granville T. Woods patented an improved telephone transmitter, 1884
December 1: Founder of the NAACP, Arthur Spingarn was born, 1878
November 30: Shirley Chisholm, one time U.S. presidential candidate, was born in Brooklyn, NY, 1924
November 29: Chadwick Boseman known for his portrayals of real life historical figures was born in Anderson, SC, 1977