Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, Civil Rights activist whose actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, was born on this day in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
On this day in 1961, Angolans began their armed struggle against Portuguese colonial domination.
On this day in 1794, France was forced to abolish the slavery system after the enslaved in Haiti rebelled and overthrew French rule.
Jean Baptiste Belley (Mars) was a former enslaved in Haiti who was one of those making the case for France to abolish slavery in its colonies. He was born in present-day Senegal and was taken to San Domingue and enslaved, eventually fighting for Haitian independence. He represented Haiti in the French National Convention.
Raiford Chatman Ossie Davis, actor, director, writer, and activist passed away on this day in 2005 in Miami, Florida. He is well-known for his decades-long artistic partnership with his wife, actor, and writer Ruby Dee.
On this day in 1986, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in honor of Sojourner Truth, also known as Isabel Baumfree, a former enslaved who gained her freedom and became an abolitionist and a leader of the Women’s Suffragist movements.
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