August 18, 1944 Jacques Roumain, writer and political activist, died. Jacques Roumain was born June 4, 1907 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His grandfather served as the president of Haiti from 1912 to 1913. Roumain was educated in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain. At 20 years old, he returned to Haiti and formed “The Indigenous Review: Arts […]
Archive | August 18, 2011
August 18th in African American History – Richard Benjamin Moore
August 18, 1978 Richard Benjamin Moore, lecturer, political activist and author, died. Richard Moore was born August 9, 1893 in Christ Church, Barbados. He moved with his family to the United States in 1909 and settled in Harlem, New York. Harlem introduced Moore to the realities of European colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean as […]