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December 21, 1921 Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback, the first African American to become governor of a state in the United…
December 22, 1964, Angela James was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. James attended Seneca College where she won numerous titles…
On December 23, 1990 Wendell Oliver Scott, stock car racer and the first African American to obtain a NASCAR racing…
December 24, Octavia V Rogers Albert was born enslaved in Oglethorpe, Georgia. Albert was emancipated after the Civil War and…
Emanuel Stance (1843 – December 25, 1887) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient…
December 26, 1999 Curtis Lee Mayfield, singer, songwriter and record producer, died. Mayfield was born June 3, 1942 in Chicago,…
December 27, 1939 John Amos, Jr., television, film and stage actor, was born in Newark, New Jersey. Amos attended Colorado…
December 28, 1954 Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr., actor, director, and film producer, was born in Mount Vernon, New York. Washington…