Maceo Dailey

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr., earned his Ph.D. from Howard University. He has taught at Smith College, Brown University, Boston College, Spelman College, Colby College, New York University and Morehouse College. Currently he is associate professor in the Department of History and Director of African American Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. His publications include (with co-editor Kristine Navarro), Wheresoever My People Chance to Dwell: Oral Interviews with African American Women of El Paso (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2000) and (with Ruthe Winegarten) Tuneful Tales (Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 2002). Professor Dailey is a member of the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and is a past chair of the Board of Directors of Humanities Texas. He has also served as a commissioner on the Texas Emancipation Juneteenth Cultural and Historical Commission.

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