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Oct 15
October
Activist
Civil Rights
Black Panther Party
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Oct 17
October
Science
Medicine
Author
Dr. Mae Jemison
Physician, NASA Astronaut, Author, Chemical Engineer, avid Star Trek fan, and the first Black woman to travel into Space, flight STS-47, Spacelab-J.
Alabama
Oct 17
October
Medicine
AME
Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson
Pennsylvania
Oct 18
October
Singer
Educator
Camilla Williams
Virginia
Oct 18
October
Theatre
Ntozake Shange
New Jersey
Oct 18
October
Civil Rights
Author
Educator
Mary Gibson Hundley
Educator, Writer, and Civil Rights Activist
Maryland
Oct 19
October
Anthropology
Educator
Johnnetta B. Cole
Cole (1936) was the first Black woman to serve as President of Spelman College.
Florida
Oct 20
October
Civil Rights
Jean Fairfax
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Oct 21
October
Film & TV
Eloyce King Gist
Filmmaker
Texas
Oct 22
October
Educator
Rosalynn Terborg - Penn
Historian
New York
Oct 22
October
Film & TV
Entertainment
Julie Dash
Filmmaker
New York
Oct 23
October
Military
Civil Rights
Edna Griffin
Katz Drug Store
Kentucky
Oct 24
October
Film & TV
The Wiz
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Oct 24
October
Entrepreneur
Marjorie Stewart Joyner
Pioneering inventor in the haircare and beauty industry
Virginia
Oct 25
October
Civil Rights
Irene McCoy Gaines
Civil Rights and Social Worker
Florida
Oct 26
October
Medicine
Government
Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General
18th Surgeon General of the United States
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Oct 26
October
Singer
Mahalia Jackson
Louisiana
Oct 27
October
Actress
Civil Rights
Ruby Dee
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Oct 27
October
Science
Gladys Mae West
Dr. West ...algorithm...foundation for GPS.
Virginia
Oct 29
October
Athlete
Cheryl White
First Black female jockey.
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Oct 29
October
Singer
Melba Moore
New York
Oct 29
October
Educator
Activist
Josephine Beall Wilson Bruce
Clubwoman
Pennsylvania
Oct 30
October
Theatre
Singer
Jane White
New York
Oct 31
October
Singer
Actress
Ethel Waters
Entertainer
Pennsylvania
Nov 1
November
Educator
Art
Margaret Burroughs
Burroughs (1915-2010), was an Artist, Archivist, Poet, Writer, and Founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History and the South Side Community Art Center - both in Chicago. She dedicated her life to preserving and championing Black art, literature, culture, and history.
Louisiana
Nov 1
November
Medicine
Caroline Still Anderson
Pennsylvania
Nov 1
November
Journalism
The Crisis
The Official Magazine of the NAACP.
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Nov 3
November
Art
Loïs Mailou Jones
Massachusetts
Nov 3
November
Science
Jeanette Epps
NASA Astronaut, Aerospace engineer, Physicist, and the second Black woman to be part of a long duration mission at the International Space Station.
New York
Nov 4
November
Medicine
Educator
Patricia Bath
New York
Nov 5
November
Actress
Singer
Etta Moten Barnett
Singer and Actress
Texas
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