Afro History
Today in Afro History ! Desmond Tutu becomes the first Afro South African to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa in 1986 !
English: South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu delivered a speech at the first International Ethics Conference at the University of Botswana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Kingdom of Swaziland gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1968 !
Swazis dancing in a cultural village show. Author: Christoph Riedl SWAZILAND (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Traditional homes in Swaziland and still widely used outside of the towns. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Leopold Sedar Senghor becomes the first elected president of Senegal in 1960 !
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Touching the supernatural Photo taken in Kaolak, Senegal (West Africa) in November, 1967 (Best viewed large). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The National Guard is called out to prevent Afro American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 !
Operation Arkansas: A Different Kind of Deployment Photo by Courtesy of the National Archives September 20, 2007 Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Rev. Al Sharpton leads a protest march in Bensonhurst Brooklyn over the death of Yusef Hawkins in 1989. Oberlin College founded in 1833.
The Reverend Al Sharpton leading the first protest march over the death of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, 1989. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! George Coleman Poage becomes the first Afro American to win a medal in an Olympic Games. He won two bronze medals in the 1904 Olympics !
Today in Afro History ! Trinidad and Tobago gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1962 ! Lionel Hampton passes away in 2002.
The Chaconia (Warszewiczia coccinea) is the national flower of Trinidad and Tobago. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Trinidad and Tobago (orthographic projection) Español: Trinidad y Tobago (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Thurgood Marshall becomes the first Afro American Supreme Court Justice in 1967 ! Guion Bluford becomes the first Afro American in space in 1983 !
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by Kennedy to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The Black Panther Party has confrontation with Philadelphia police resulting in one police officers death in 1970. Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobbs stolen base record in 1977 !
Original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert “Big Man” Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Black Panther Party members standing in the street, armed with a Colt .45 and a shotgun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King gives his ” I have a dream speech” at the March on Washington in 1963 !
English: Dr. Martin Luther King giving his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on 28 August 1963. Español: Dr. Martin Luther King dando su discurso “Yo tengo un sueño” durante la Marcha sobre Washington por el trabajo y la libertad en Washington, D.C., 28 de agosto de 1963. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
African American author, educator, and political activist W. E. B. Du Bois. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Left: Niagara Movement leaders W.E.B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J.R. Clifford, L.M. Hershaw, and F.H.M. Murray at Harpers Ferry. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 – 1963), co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1918. Deutsch: Der Soziologe William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), Mitbegründer der afroamerikanischen Bürgerrechtsorganisation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), aufgenommen 1918 von C.M. Battey (1873–1927). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Kunene river viewed from the Namibian side, near Swartbooisdrift, 4km west of the small village Ongato, in the Angolan Cunene province. Makalani palms fringe the opposite bank. Deutsch: Kunene in der nähe von Swartbooisdrift, 4km entfernt von Ongato, Cunene provinz, Angola (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cape Ground Squirrels close to Solitaire in the Namib desert, Namibia Deutsch: Borstenhörnchen in der nähe von Solitaire, Namibwüste, Namibia Français : Des ecureuils de terre près de Solitaire, en Namibie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)






