August 22, 1978 Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister and President of Kenya, died. Kenyatta was born in the village of Ngende, Gatundu, in British East Africa (now Kenya) in the early to mid-1890s. No formal birth records of native Africans were kept at that time. In 1929, Kenyatta moved to Europe for education and work. […]
Archive | August 22, 2011
August 22nd in African American History – Huey Percy Newton
August 22, 1989 Huey Percy Newton, co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was fatally shot. Huey Percy Newton was born February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana but raised in Oakland, California. In 1966, while at Oakland City College, he and Bobby Seale organized the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Seale became chairman […]