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December 13, 2009 Dale Raymond Wright, award-winning and barrier-breaking journalist, died. Wright was born July 19, 1923 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania.…
December 14, 1939 Ernest Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, was born in New Salem, Pennsylvania,…
December 15, 1987 Septima Poinsette Clark, “grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement,” died. Clark was born May 3, 1898 in…
December 16, 1987 Minnie Evans, folk artist, died. Evans was born December 12, 1892 in Pender County, North Carolina but…
December 17, 1954 Kenneth C. Frazier, the first African American to lead a major United States pharmaceutical company, was…
December 18, 1917 Raiford Chatman “Ossie” Davis, actor, director, playwright and social activist, was born in Cogdell, Georgia. Davis began…
On December 19, 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson presented the Medal of Honor, America’s highest military decoration, to the family…
December 20, 1942 Robert Lee “Bullet Bob” Hayes, Olympic Gold medal sprinter and hall of fame football player, was born…