*William A. Hunton was born on this date in 1865. He was a Black activist, teacher, and administrator. Hunton was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, the son of Stanton and Mary A. Johnson Hunton. The Hunton home was an “underground railway station” where John Brown occasionally held conferences on abolitionism. He received his A.M. degree from Wilberforce Collegiate […]
learn more*The founding of Black Women Stirring the Waters occurred on this date in 1984. Black Women Stirring the Waters is a black women’s discussion group founded in the San Francisco Bay Area. Clara Stanton Jones and Aileen Clarke Hernandez conceived the group. The group has no formal structure, taboo subjects, and requirements for membership other […]
learn more*The birth of Henry Lowry is celebrated on this date c. 1845. He was a Lumbee Native American outlaw. Henry Berry Lowry was born to Allen and Mary (Cumbo) Lowry in the Hopewell Community in Robeson County, North Carolina. His father owned a successful 350-acre mixed-use farm in the county. Henry Lowry was one of 12 multi-racial […]
learn more*Black History and Fusion Politics is affirmed on this date in 1890. This is a national manifestation of business in a society centered on citizen and common populace uplift. After the American Civil War, fusion politics united political parties briefly and has ebbed and flowed with intended progressive independent, self-governing results. In some western states, the […]
learn more*Elbert Howard was born on this date in 1938. He was a Black activist, author, and founding member of the Black Panther Party. Howard was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Anderson and Emma (Hawkshaw) Howard. In 1956 he enlisted in the Air Force. He served four years, and when honorably discharged at Travis Air Force Base […]
learn more*On this date, in 1901, Dora Tamana was born. She was a Black South African activist. She was born Dora Ntloko at Nqamakwe, in Hlobo, Transkei, near Dutywa, then part of Cape Colony, South Africa. Her grandfather was a Methodist preacher, but as a teenager, she converted, with her family, to the Israelite denomination. […]
learn more*On this date in 1948, the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) was formed. The ANCWL is an auxiliary women’s political organization of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. This organization has its precedent in the Bantu Women’s League, and it oscillated from being the Women’s Section to the Women’s League from its founding, through […]
learn more*On this date in 1969, we celebrate the South African Students’ Organization (SASO). SASO was a body of black South African university students who resisted apartheid through non-violent political action. The organization was formed under the leadership of Steve Biko and Barney Pityana and made vital contributions to the ideology and political leadership of the Black Consciousness […]
learn more*Frances Baard was born on this date in 1909. She was a South African activist, and trade unionist, organizer. Frances Goitsemang Maswabi was born Frances Maswabi in Green Point, Beaconsfield, Kimberley, South Africa. Her father was Herman Maswabi from Ramotswa in Botswana, and her mother, Sarah Voss, was a Tswana person from Kimberley. She attended the […]
learn more*The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was formed on this date in 1954. FEDSAW was a multi-racial women’s organization and lobby group that organized and protested the institutional Apartheid Regime that was present throughout South Africa. FEDSAW became part of the Congress Alliance, an anti-apartheid coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC). The organization is also most […]
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