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Jean Baptiste Roumain (Jacques) / Roumain, Jacques (1907-1944)
Jacques Roumain (Born Jean-Baptiste Roumain) was a Haitian author, poet, novelist, essayist, political activist, and diplomat born on June 4,...
Ishmael Flory (1907–2004)
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Ishmael Flory was a civil rights activist, trade union organizer, and Communist Party (CPUSA) leader in...
Julian Mayfield (1928-1984)
Julian Hudson Mayfield was best known as an American actor, director, writer, lecturer, and civil rights activist. Mayfield was born...
Leo Lythel Robinson (1937–2013)
“Image Courtesy of David Bacon” A rank-and-file activist in the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Leo Robinson was best...
COINTELPRO [Counterintelligence Program] (1956-1976)
COINTELPRO was a counterintelligence program run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from roughly 1956 to 1976. It combined...
Black Belt Republic (1928-1934)
The Black Belt Republic was a proposed black autonomous state in the American Deep South proposed by African American communists...
Mercedes Frias (1962- )
Politician and immigrant and women’s rights advocate Mercedes Lourdes Frias was born in the municipality of San Antonio de Guerra,...
Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007)
Ousmane Sembène, prolific writer and film producer, was born in January 1923 in Ziguinchor, Senegal. Official documents were rare in...
Angela Davis (1944-)
Angela Davis, activist, educator, and scholar, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama. ...
