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	December 1 1955: Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. 1987: Carrie Saxon Perry, mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, becomes 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: James Anderson founds The New York Amsterdam News.	December 5 1955: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organizes Birmingham bus boycott, marking 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: Navy steward Dorie Miller shoots down four Japanese planes during attack 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.	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 1975: The National Association of Black Journalists founded. 1981: Estelle Massey Osborne, first black nurse to earn a master's degree, dies. 1992: President Bill Clinton appoints six blacks to Cabinet and White House staff.	December 13 1944: First African American servicewomen sworn into the WAVES.
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, 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 United Nations.	December 17 1802: Teacher and minister Henry Adams born.	December 18 1971: Rev. Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH.	December 19 HANUKKAH BEGINS (SUNDOWN) 1875: Educator Carter G. Woodson, "Father of Black History," born.	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 first African American elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.	December 23 1867: Sarah "Madam C.J." Walker, businesswoman and first African American female millionaire, born.	December 24 1832: Charter granted to Georgia Infirmary, the first black hospital.	December 25 CHRISTMAS 1760: Jupiter Hammon becomes first published black poet with "An Evening Thought."	December 26 KWANZAA BEGINS 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 Piano," born.	December 29 1924: Author, sportswriter A.S. "Doc" Young born.	December 30 1842: Congressman Josiah Walls born. 1892: Dr. Miles V. Lynk publishes first African American medical journal.	December 31 1930: Odetta, blues and folk singer, born.

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