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November 11, 1969 George Robert Carruthers was awarded patent number 3,478,216 for his Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation. His…
November12, 1875 Egbert Austin “Bert” Williams, the pre-eminent black entertainer of his era, was born in Nassau, Bahamas. Williams moved…
November 13, 1942 Leonard Roy Harmon, the first African American to have a Navy ship named in his honor, died.…
November 14, 1954 Condoleeza Rice, professor, diplomat and national security expert, was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1974, at the age…
November 15, 1908 Ebenezer D. Bassett, educator, abolitionist, civil rights activist, and the United States’ first African American diplomat, died.…
November 16, 1963 Zina Lynna Garrison, professional tennis player, was born in Houston, Texas. Garrison started playing tennis at the…
Ruth Alston Weston Brown (January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes known as the…
November 18, 1905 Harry Tyson Moore, teacher and civil rights pioneer, was born in Houston, Florida. Moore graduated from Bethune-Cookman…