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. […]
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August 20th in African American History – Stephanie Tubbs Jones
August 20, 2008 Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African American woman elected to Congress from Ohio, died. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was born September 10, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Case Western Reserve University in 1971 and Doctorate of Jurisprudence degree from the Case Western Reserve University School […]
August 19th in African American History – Levy Patrick Mwanawasa
August 19, 2008 Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, the third President of Zambia, died. Mwanawasa was born September 3, 1948 in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia. After earning his law degree from the University of Zambia, he worked in private law firms. In 1991, Mwanawasa was elected to Parliament and from that year to 1994 served as vice president.
August 18th in African American History – Jacques Roumain
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 […]
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 […]
August 15th in African American History – Jesse Brown
August 15, 2002 Jesse Brown, the first African American to serve as United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, died. Brown was born March 27, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1963 and reached the rank of corporal. While serving during the Vietnam […]
August 6th in African American History – William Alexander Clarke Bustamante
August 6, 1977 William Alexander Clarke Bustamante, the first Prime Minister of Jamaica, died. Born William Alexander Clarke on February 24, 1884 in Hanover, Jamaica, he took the name Bustamante to honor an Iberian sea captain who befriended him in his youth. After traveling the world, Bustamante returned to Jamaica in 1932 and became a […]