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DECEMBER December 1, 1987 - Carrie Saxon Perry begins her term as the mayor of Hartford, Conn., becoming first Black woman mayor of a major U.S. city. December 2, 1884 - Granville T. Woods patents telephone transmitter. December 3, 1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of North Star. December 4, 1909 - The New York Amsterdam News is founded by James A. Anderson. December 5, 1955 - Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes Birmingham bus boycott, marking the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. December 6, 1932 - Richard B. Spikes patents automatic gearshift. 1936 - Richard Francis Jones becomes first African American certified in urology. December 7, 1941 - Dorie Miller, U.S. Navy, shoots down four Japanese planes during attach on Pearl Harbor. December 8, 1925 - Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. born. December 9, 1872 - P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana becomes first African American governor in U.S. December 10, 1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes first Black awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. December 11, 1938 - Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner born. December 12,
1899 - George F. Grant patents golf tree.
1950- Jesse Leroy Brown becomes first African
American naval officer to die in combat. 1992
- President Bill Clinton's Cabinet and White
House appointments include five Black men
and one Black woman. December 14, 1829 - John Mercer Langston, congressman and founder of Howard University Law Department, born. December 15, 1883 - William A. Hinton, first African American on Harvard Medical School faculty and developer of the Hinton test to detect syphilis, born. 1994 - Ruth J. Simmons named president of Smith College. December 16, 1976 - Andrew Young nominated by President Jimmy Carter to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. December 17, 1802 - Teacher and minister Henry Adams born. December 18, 1971 - Rev. Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH. December 19,
1875 - Educator Carter G. Woodson, "father
of Black December 20, 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union. December 21, 1911 - Baseball legend Josh Gibson born. December 22, 1943 - W.E. B. DuBois becomes the first African American elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. December 23, 1869 - Madam C.J. Walker, businesswoman and first African American woman millionaire, born. December 24, 1832 - Charter granted to the Georgia Infirmary, the fist Black hospital. December 25, 1760 - Jupiter Hammon becomes first published Black poet with his poem, "An Evening Thought". December 26, 1894 - Jean Toomer, author of Cane, born. December 27, 1862 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion church founded in New Bern, North Carolina. December 28,
1905 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, "Father
of Modern Jazz December 29, 1924 - Author, sportswriter A.S. "Doc" Young born. December 30, 1842 - Congressman Josiah Walls born. December
31, 1930 - Odetta, blues and folk singer,
born.
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