November 30, 1897 – J.A. Sweeting patented cigarette- rolling device.
December 1, 1987 – Carrie Saxon Perry began her term as the mayor of Hartford, CT., becomes first black female mayor of a major U.S. city.
December 2, 1884 – Granville T. Woods patented 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.
December 5, 1955 – Martin Luther King, Jr., organized Birmingham bus boycott, marking the beginning of the modern U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
December 6, 1932 – Richard B. Spikes patented automatic gearshift.
December 6, 1936 – Richard Francis Jones became first African American certified in urology.
