On this day in 1979, The New York Times published archaeological findings of a cemetery in Qustul in Nubia on the border between Sudan and Egypt that pointed to a line of rulers that may have been the first Dynasties of the Nile Valley Civilization. This was the ancient kingdom of Ta-Seti (Nubia).
Harold George ‘Bellanfanti’ Belafonte, Jr, popularly known as Harry Belafonte, was born on this day in 1927 in Harlem, New York City. Singer, actor, songwriter, and activist, he became famous for his rendition of songs from the Caribbean. His political activism has been second to none among entertainers.
On this day in 1896, Ethiopian forces under Emperor Menelik II, routed the colonial Italian forces in Adwa in the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Coming at the height of imposition of colonialism in much of Africa, especially after the Berlin Conference, this victory was a major blow to European claims of superiority.
In its edition on this day in 1925, Survey Graphic published a special edition on “Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro”. It was to become the basis for a full-length book on Black arts and letters called the “New Negro” that featured the cultural phenomenon that was then raging in the United States, the Harlem Renaissance.
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Civil Rights Act on this day in 1875. This was an act that was “designed to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights”. It was a Reconstruction era effort to provide equity for all U.S. Citizens.
On this day in 1739, The British Government entered a peace treaty with freedom-seeking enslaved Jamaicans called the Maroons. This meant that previously enslaved had autonomy over their lands and their lives.
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