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Fe del Mundo (born November 27, 1911) is a Filipino pediatrician. Possibly the first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines.Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines in an active medical practice that has spanned 8 decades has won her international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1977. In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines.

Read more about Fe del Mundo in her biography from the 1977 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.

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Dika Newlin (November 22, 1923—July 22, 2006) was a pianist, professor, composer and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living students of Arnold Schoenberg, a Schoenberg Scholar and a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from 1978-2004. She performed as an Elvis impersonator and played punk rock while in her 70's in Richmond, Virginia.

She was featured in the documentary Dika: Murder City.

Read excerpts from Bruckner - Mahler - Schoenberg By Dika Newlin, googlebooks.com.

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Jesse Stone (born Atchison, Kansas, 16 November 1901 - died Altamonte Springs, Florida, 1 April 1999) was an American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres. He also used the pseudonyms Charles Calhoun and Chuck Calhoun. Ahmet Ertegün stated that "Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock 'n' roll sound than anybody else."

Stone grew up in Kansas where he was influenced by a wide array of styles. He came from a musical family who put on minstrel shows, and performed with a trained dog act at the age of 4. By 1926 he had formed a group, the Blue Serenaders, and cut his first record, "Starvation Blues", for Okeh Records in 1927. For the next few years he worked as a pianist and arranger in Kansas City, recording with Julia Lee among others, and then in the 1930s organised a larger orchestra.

Learn more about Jesse Stone, from soul-patrol.com.

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Clyde McPhatter (November 15, 1932 – June 13, 1972) was an influential American R&B singer.

McPhatter was raised in a religious Baptist family, and formed a gospel group in 1945 after his family moved to New Jersey. They soon relocated to New York City, and McPhatter joined the Mount Lebanon Singers, a popular gospel group.

Listen to Clyde McPhatter perform "Without Love There is Nothing," free from YouTube.

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Hampton Hawes (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an African American jazz pianist.

The highly regarded bebop pianist Hampton Hawes was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father, Hampton Hawes, Sr., was minister of the Westminster Presbysterian Church, and his mother was the church pianist. Hawes was reported to have been able to pick out fairly complex tunes on the piano at the age of two. Entirely self-taught, by his teens Hawes was playing with some of the best jazz musicians on the West Coast, including Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Sonny Criss, and Art Pepper. His second professional job, at 19, was playing for eight months with the Howard McGhee Quintet at the Hi De Ho club, in a group that included Charlie Parker.

Learn more about Hampton Hawes and his career, free from jazzscript.co.uk

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Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr. (1930-1988) grew up in Washington, D.C., where his father worked as a swimming coach at Howard University. After graduating from Dunbar High School, he followed in the steps of his father and grandfather by enrolling in Howard, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in 1954. After a short term with the Army, Pendleton returned to Howard as a physical education instructor and student, and received his master's degree in education in 1961.

Read Clarence Pendleton's obituary, free from the New York Times.

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Palmer C. Hayden (January 15, 1890 – February 18, 1973) was an American painter who depicted African American life. He painted in both oils and watercolors, and was a prolific artist of his era.

Born on January 15, 1890, Hayden’s original name was Peyton Cole Hedgeman. He was given the name Palmer Hayden by his commanding sergeant during World War I. He grew up in the town of Wide Water, Virginia, and was a so-called self trained artist. Hayden was one of the first in America to depict African subjects in his paintings.

Read Palmer Hayden's collected papers, free from the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

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Horace Mann Bond (November 8, 1905 – December 21, 1972) was an American educator, academic administrator, writer, and the father of civil-rights leader Julian Bond. He earned a master's and doctorate from University of Chicago, at a time when only a small percentage of any young adults attended college. He was an influential leader at several historically black colleges and was appointed the first president of Fort Valley State University in Georgia in 1939, and the first African-American president of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1945.

Read Horace Mann Bond's letter to Time magazine.

From California State University, Pomona:
Alexa Irene Canady, the first woman and first African American to become a Neurosurgeon was born to Elizabeth Hortense (Golden) Canady and Clinton Canady Jr. on November 7, 1950 in Lansing Michigan. Both colleges educated her father a graduate of the School of Dentistry of Meharry Medical College, thus a highly respected dentist in Lansing. Her mother a graduate of Fiasco University, and formerly active in civic affairs of Lansing. She also served as national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Learn more about Alexa Canady, free from the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.

From the African-American Registry:

Theodore McNeal was born on this date in 1905. He was an African-American Union organizer and politician.

From Helena, Arkansas, after graduating from high school in his hometown, he moved to St. Louis working at a ceramics and brick plant. A few years later, he took a temporary position working on a Pullman car. In 1930 McNeal was one of the first St. Louis-area Pullman-car workers to join the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Seven years later, McNeal and other union officials succeeded in signing a hard-earned contract between the Pullman Company and the brotherhood, a promised agreement between a large American company and a predominantly Black union.


Read an interview with Theodore McNeal, free from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

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Scherrie Payne (born November 4, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan} is an African-American singer. The younger sister of singer/actress Freda Payne, Scherrie Payne was lead singer of The Supremes from 1973 to 1977, after Jean Terrell left the group in the fall of 1973. Payne is sometimes referred to as "the little lady with the big voice".

Read an interview with Scherrie Payne, free from discomusic.com.

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Lois Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905 – June 9, 1998) was an African American Harlem Renaissance painter. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was an incredibly talented artist that continues to influence many today.

She began her teaching career at Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina while coaching a basketball team, teaching folk dancing, and playing the piano. She also founded the art departments at Palmer Memorial Institute and Howard University Washington D.C.



Learn more about Lois M. Jones and her work, free from Howard University.