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| November 1 1991: Judge Clarence Thomas formally seated as 106th associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court. |
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| November 2 1954: Charles C. Diggs elected Michigan's first African American congressman. 1983: President Ronald Reagan designates Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday. |
November 3 1981: Thirman L. Milner elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, becoming first black mayor in New England. 1992: Carol Moseley Braun becomes first black woman in Senate. |
November 4 ELECTION DAY 1879: Thomas Elkins patents refrigeration apparatus. |
November 5 1968: Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes first African American woman elected to Congress. |
November 6 1900: James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose "Lift Every Voice and Sing." |
November 7 1989: L. Douglas Wilder elected governor of Virginia, becoming nation's first black governor since Reconstruction. |
November 8 1938: Crystal Bird Faucet elected state representative in Pennsylvania, becoming first black woman to serve in a state legislature. |
| November 9 1731: Mathematician, urban planner and inventor Benjamin Banneker born. 2000: Brown University names Ruth Simmons, Ph.D., president. |
November 10 1983: Wilson Goode elected Philadelphia's first African American mayor. |
November 11 VETERANS DAY 1989: Civil Rights Memorial dedicated in Montgomery, Alabama. |
November 12 1941: Mary Cardwell Dawson founds the National Negro Opera Company. |
November 13 1894: Albert C. Richardson patents casket-lowering device. |
November 14 1915: Booker T. Washington, educator and writer, dies. |
November 15 1881: Payton Johnson patents swinging chair. |
| November 16 1981: Pam Johnson named publisher of the Ithaca Journal in New York, becoming first African American woman to head a daily newspaper. |
November 17 1980: Howard University airs WHHM, first African American-operated public radio station. |
November 18 1797: Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and Civil War nurse, born. |
November 19 1953: Roy Campanella named Most Valuable Player in National Baseball League for the second time. |
November 20 1865: Howard Seminary (later Howard University) founded in Washington, D.C. 1923: Garrett A. Morgan patents traffic light signal. |
November 21 1893: Granville T. Woods patents electric railway conduit. |
November 22 1930: Elijah Muhammed establishes the Nation of Islam. |
| November 23 1897: John L. Love patents pencil sharpener. 1897: A.J. Beard patents the Jenny Coupler, still used to connect railroad cars. |
November 24 1868: Pianist Scott Joplin, the "Father of Ragtime," born. |
November 25 1975: Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. |
November 26 1970: Charles Gordone becomes first black playwright to receive the Pulitzer Prize (for No Place to Be Somebody). |
November 27 THANKSGIVING DAY 1990: Charles Johnson awarded National Book Award for fiction for Middle Passage. |
November 28 1960: Novelist Richard Wright dies. |
November 29 1908: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall born. |
| November 30 1897: J.A. Sweeting patents cigarette-rolling device. |