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2024 - 1Sunday1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to change seat.
- 2Monday1975 - Ohio State running back Archie Griffin wins second Heisman Trophy.
- 3Tuesday1847 - Frederick Douglass, along with Martin R Delaney, started "The North Start."
- 4Wednesday1969 - Black Panther Leaders Killed
- 5Thursday1981 - Marcus Allen, wins the Heisman Trophy
- 6Friday1849 - Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland.
- 7Saturday1978 - Billy Sims is awarded the Heisman trophy
- 8Sunday1936 - Gibbs v. Board of Education
- 9Monday1875 - Carter Goodwin Woodson born on this date
- 10Tuesday1950 - Dr.Ralph J.Bunche is the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 11Wednesday1980 - George Rogers is awarded the Heisman Trophy
- 12Thursday1995 - Willie Brown defeats incumbent mayor Frank Jordan to become 1st African American
- 13Friday1981 - Comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham dies
- 14Saturday1972 - Johnny Rodgers is awarded the Heisman Trophy
- 15Sunday2001 - Singer Rufus Thomas dies
- 16Monday1973 - OJ Simpson sets NFL Record for Rushing Yards
- 17Tuesday1991 - Michael Jordan named Sportsman of the Year
- 18Wednesday1989 - Ernest Dickerson wins the New York Film Critics Circle Award.
- 19Thursday1933 - Actress Cicely Tyson is born in New York, New York.
- 20Friday
- 21Saturday1988 - African-American term is coined
- 22Sunday1905 - James Amos Porter (1905-1970) was born on this date
- 23Monday1919 - Alice H Parker patents the gas heating furnace
- 24Tuesday1992 - First Black Secretary of Agriculture
- 25Wednesday1875 - Charles Caldwell "Not Guilty"
- 26Thursday1966 - kwanzaa
- 27FridaySecond Day of Kwanzaa
- 28Saturday1954 - Actor Denzel Washington Born on this date
- 29Sunday1907 - Robert Weaver was born on this date
- 30Monday1929 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporated on this date
- 31Tuesday1948 - Singer Donna Summer born.
