Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Sodacan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1807 The Slave Trade Act received royal assent in Britain, abolishing the transatlantic slave trade across the British Empire.
Sources: Electronic Scholarly Publishing (text of 47 Geo. III Sess. 1 c. 36) ; UK Parliament
Slavery
Abernathy Family, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. completed their five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Sources: Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University ; U.S. National Archives
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Civil RightsViola Liuzzo, an American civil rights activist, was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the Selma to Montgomery march.
Sources: Detroit Historical Society ; National Park Service ; Encyclopedia of Alabama
Death
DinoSoupCanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 2007 The United Nations General Assembly designated March 25 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Sources: United Nations General Assembly ; United Nations (General Assembly, 62nd session, list of resolutions) ; Council of Europe
Culture
Daily Times Nigeria, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1958 Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician and populist orator, died in a car crash.
Sources: The Nigerian Independent ; Encyclopaedia Africana
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Death