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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...
Celebrated across Africa on this day
2Historical Events
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French General Henri Giraud deposes Moncef Bey under pretext of wartime collaboration, forcing the popular monarch into exile and installing Lamine Bey. -
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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Samora Machel elected President of FRELIMO by the Central Committee following the assassination of Eduardo Mondlane and the resulting power struggle. -
Marcelino dos Santos appointed Deputy President of FRELIMO under President Samora Machel, cementing his role as the party's chief socialist strategist.
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F.W. de Klerk apologizes for Apartheid at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Famous Births
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Hastings Kamuzu Banda, first president of Malawi, is born. - 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