Eunice Kathleen Waymon, professionally known as Nina Simone, was a singer, songwriter, pianist arranger, and political activist. She was born on this day in 1933.
On this day in 1965 in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, el-Hajj Malik el Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, minister, human rights activist, teacher, and leader, was assassinated. A shining Black light was extinguished.
John Robert Lewis, human rights activist, congressman, statesman, and civil rights icon, was born on this day in 1940 in Troy, Alabama. He went from a life of sharecropping to becoming one of the most important leaders in America.
Honorable Barbara Charline Jordan, lawyer, constitutional scholar, educator, and congresswoman was born on this day in 1936 in Houston, Texas. Jordan rose to the occasion in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the Impeachment of President Richard Nixon when she laid out a case for impeachment.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a revolutionary nationalist, and leader who led Zimbabwe to independence, was born on this day in 1924 in Kutama, Zimbabwe.
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