Promotes unity between different population groups
Established to improve relations between descendants of American slaves and indigenous populations
Public
National Unification Day
Promotes unity between different population groups
What this holiday commemorates
On this day in African history
- 1943 French General Henri Giraud deposes Moncef Bey under pretext of wartime collaboration, forcing the popular monarch into exile and installing Lamine Be... · Tunisia
- 1947 Ahmed Sékou Touré co-founds the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) as the territorial branch of the RDA. · Guinea
- 1951 South Africa's Parliament votes to remove Coloured people from the voters roll. · South Africa
- 1953 Riots in Kano kill 32 during independence movement tensions in Nigeria. · Nigeria
- 1961 Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil righ... · United States