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November 27, 1928 Marjorie Stewart Joyner received patent number 1,693,515 for her invention of the permanent wave machine which could…
November 28, 1884 Edwin Bancroft Henderson, the “grandfather of Black basketball,” was born in Washington, D.C. In 1904, Henderson became…
November 29, 1989 Mabel Keaton Stauper, a leader in breaking down barriers in nursing, died. Stauper was born February 27,…
November 30, 1941 Aulana L. Peters, the first African American to serve as a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange…
December 1, 1882 John Alexander Sommerville, businessman and politician, was born in Jamaica. Sommerville immigrated to the United States in…
December 2, 1969 Vice President Spiro Agnew presented the Congressional Medal of Honor, America’s highest military decoration, to the family…
December 3, 2000 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, poet and novelist, died. Brooks was born June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas…
December 4, 1807 Prince Hall, the founder of “Black Freemasonry,” died. Hall was born September 14, 1735 in Barbados. Not…