May 29, 1944 Maurice Rupert Bishop, former Grenadian Prime Minister, was born on the island of Aruba. Bishop earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Presentation College and was educated at the London School of Economics. After returning to Grenada in 1973, he was elected head of the Marxist New Jewel Movement political party. Bishop […]
Archive | May 29, 2011
May 29th in African American History – Hamilton Naki
May 29, 2005 Hamilton Naki, South African surgical assistant and teacher, died. Naki was born June 26, 1926 in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and was educated up to the age of 14. While working as a gardener at the University of Cape Town, Naki was selected to work in the clinical laboratory to […]