This Week in Black history

November 1   First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H
                Johnson, 1945
             WEB DuBois began publication of NAACP monthly magazine,
                "Crisis", 1910

November 2

November 3   JH Hunter patented the portable weighing scales, 1896

November 4   T. Elkins patented the refrigerating apparatus, 1879

November 5   George Brown became first Black Lt. Governor in US
                (Colorado), 1974
             Shirley Chisholm became first Black woman elected to
                Congress, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
                NY, 1968
             Theo Wright becomes first Black to obtain Theology Degree
                in US, 1836
             Negro History Week initiated by Carter G Woodson, 1926