Safe Toys and Gifts Month
December 1 World AIDS Day

December 10, 1950:
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes first black awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

December 17, 1802:
Teacher and minister Henry Adams born.

December 18, 1971:
Rev. Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH.

December 30, 1892:
Dr. Miles V. Lynk publishes first African American medical journal.

December 31, 1930:
Odetta, blues and folk singer, born.