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Fire on the Highway: When Anniston Exposed Segregation's Violence
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders pulled into Anniston, Alabama. These civil rights activists were testing the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings on interstate travel—a direct challenge to Jim C...
Historical Events
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Ahmed Sékou Touré co-founds the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) as the territorial branch of the RDA. - 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
- 1960 Liberia declares May 14 as National Unification Day. 🇱🇷 Liberia
- 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 rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle. United States
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F.W. de Klerk apologizes for Apartheid at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Famous Births
2- 1905 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, first president of Malawi, is born. 🇲🇼 Malawi
- 1949 Matome Maponya, South African black business leader, is born. 🇿🇦 South Africa
Famous Deaths
1- 1987 A booby-trapped television kills Tsitsi Chiliza in Harare, Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe