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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (0 Comment)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 1929-1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was
born on Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Charles Johnson was the attending physician. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther...
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Amy Jacques Garvey (0 Comment)
Amy Jacques Garvey (1896-1973) Amy JacquesGarvey was a pioneer Pan-African emancipator born in Kingston, Jamaica on December 31, 1885. She became the first lady of the Interim-Provisional Government of Africa - the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League (ACL) in August...
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J. A. ROGERS (1 Comment)
J. A. ROGERS (1883-1966) Published by the Soul School Institute By RUNOKO RASHIDI Joel Augustus Rogers was born September 6, 1883 at Negril, Jamaica. Very little is known about his early schooling. The historian is said to have had a "good basic education" but lacked higher formal education. J.A. Rogers...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Booker T. Washington (0 Comment)
Booker T. Washington EX-SLAVE, AMERICA''S LEADING EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION (1858-1915) LIFE AT TIMES seems to delight in irony. It will place certain individuals at the foot of the ladder where there seems to be no hope for them, and harass them to within an inch of their lives, then some day lift them...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Marcus Garvey (7 Comment)
Marcus Garvey PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT OF AFRICA" AND MESSIAH (1887-1940) MARCUS GARVEY, "Back-to-Africa" leader, was the most widely known of all the agitators for the rights of the Negro and one of the most phenomenal. Arriving in the United States poor and unknown, within four years he became the most talked-of...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Alessandro de'' Medici (1 Comment)
Alessandro de'' Medici FIRST REIGNING DUKE OF FLORENCE (1510-1537) TO STUDENTS of color discrimination European history offers no more astonishing figure than Alessandro de'' Medici, "The Moor," first reigning Duke of Florence. His mother Anna was a fine and robust black peasant of Colle Vecchio, Italy, in the...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
John VI (0 Comment)
John VI KING OF PORTUGAL AND MAKER OF MODERN BRAZIL (1767-1826) ON NOT MANY SOVEREIGNS does opinion diverge so widely as on John VI, King of Portugal, Algarve, and Brazil. Some historians call him weak, indecisive, and indolent; others hail him as one of the ablest and wisest rulers in history. The real verdict,...
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Ira Aldridge (0 Comment)
Ira Aldridge
GREATEST OF THE OTHELLOS (1810?-1867) IRA FREDERICK ALDRIDGE, one of the world''s greatest actors, was born in the early years of the nineteenth century, probably 1810. As regards his birth and early life there are two conflicting stories. According to the first, he was born in New York City, the...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (0 Comment)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ENGLAND''S "GREATEST MUSICAL SENSATION" (1875-1912) ONE EVENING in Croydon, London, a frail Negro boy of seven stood on the sidewalk gazing eagerly into a parlor where a music lesson was in progress. He had been playing marbles with his companions, but hearing the music, had left them...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Henrique Dias (0 Comment)
Henrique Dias EX-SLAVE WHO BROKE THE POWER OF HOLLA2) NEGRO SLAVES, as military leaders, have played an important part in the present political alignment of the New World. Toussaint L''Ouverture and Dessalines weakened the power of France in the Caribbean, and thereby brought about the sale of the...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Bernardino Rivadavia (0 Comment)
Bernardino Rivadavia FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC (1780-1845) BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA was one of South America''s greatest and noblest statesmen. A native of Buenos Aires, he was one of the leaders in repelling the English when they tried to seize that country in I8o6 and again in 1807. He distinguished ...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 2 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Dom Pedro II, "The Magnanimous" (3 Comment)
Dom Pedro II, "The Magnanimous" BRAZILIAN EMANCIPATOR (1825-1891) DOM PEDRO II, de Alcántara, surnamed "The Magnanimous." shared with Queen Victoria the honor of being the best-beloved monarch of the nineteenth century. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil and King of...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 1 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Toussaint L''Ouverture (0 Comment)
Toussaint L''Ouverture THE NEGRO OF WHOM NAPOLEON WAS JEALOUS (1743-1803) IN 1743, IN A SLAVE HUT on the plantation of Count de Breda in St. Domingue, or Haiti, was born a male child whose civil status was that of an ox. For the next forty-eight years he remained thus, almost untaught; then, at a time when others...
9-th, 2004 - 21: 1 (Posted By: Webmaster)
Louis Delgrés (0 Comment)
Louis Delgrés GUADELOUPE PATRIOT WHO DEFIED NAPOLEON (1772-1802) Louis DELGRÉS, the Toussaint L''Ouverture of Guadeloupe, was born at St. Pierre, Martinique, and was sent by his father to be educated in France, where he received a careful military education. A brilliant student, he graduated with high honors, and...
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Nat Turner (0 Comment)
Nat Turner LEADER OF AMERICA''S GREATEST SLAVE REVOLT (1800-1831) NAT TURNER was the leader of a revolt that put more terror into the hearts of the oppressors of the black man than any other event since American slavery had begun. And he started out with only seven followers, six fewer
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