November 19
1953- Roy Campanella was named Most Valuable Player of the National Baseball League for the second time. He has 142 runs batted in ’53 exceeding the record of 130.
November 20
1976- Olympic gold gymnast Dominique Dawes was born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dawes is also a three time Olympian.
November 21
1984- Trans Africa’s Randall Robinson, congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy, and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Francis Berry are arrested at a sit-in against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
November 22
1989- Colonel Frederick Drew Gregory, the nephew of Dr. Charles Drew, became the first African American astronaut to command the Space Shuttle Discovery.
November 23
1985- Desmond Tutu was elected as the first Black Bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa.
November 24
1870- Founder of the Chicago Defender, the city’s first Black newspaper, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, was born in St. Simons, Georgia.
