May 5, 2003 Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, South African anti-apratheid activist, died. Sisulu was born May 18, 1912 in Engcobo, South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1928 to work at a number of manual jobs. He joined the African National Congress in 1940 and in 1943 became the treasurer of the ANC Youth League. […]
Archive | May 5, 2011
May 5th in African American History – Josiah Henson
May 5, 1883 Josiah Henson, author, abolitionist, and minister, died. Henson was born enslaved on June 15, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. In 1830, after trying to buy his freedom and being cheated out of his money, Henson escaped with his wife and children to Canada. After arriving in Ontario, he founded The Dawn Settlement […]