November 28, 1960 – Novelist Richard Wright died.
November 29, 1908 – Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was born.
November 30, 1897 – J.A. Sweeting patented the cigarette-rolling device.
December 1, 1987 – Carrie Saxon Perry began her term as the mayor of Hartford, CT, becoming first black female mayor of a major U.S. city.
December 2, 1884 – Granville T. Woods patented the telephone transmitter.
December 3, 1847 – Frederick Douglass published first issue of North Star.
December 4, 1909 – The New York Amsterdam News was founded by James A. Anderson.
