Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1889 Claude McKay, the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose work helped define the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica.
Sources: Jamaica National Heritage Trust ; National Library of Jamaica ; Biography.com (A&E Television Networks)
BirthThe United Nations ceded Eritrea to Ethiopia as an autonomous federated territory, a decision that later fueled decades of the Eritrean War of Independence.
Sources: United Nations (Yearbook of the United Nations 1952) ; Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies (Óbuda University)
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young Black girls and galvanizing the civil rights movement.
Sources: U.S. National Park Service ; Encyclopedia of Alabama (Alabama Humanities Alliance) ; Federal Bureau of Investigation
History
CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the acclaimed Nigerian author of "Half of a Yellow Sun" and "Americanah," was born in Enugu, Nigeria.
Sources: Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press (postprint via University of Liège ORBi) ; Encyclopaedia Britannica
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