It's MLK Day on Monday

Monday is Martin Luther King Day is a day to honor the major civil right’s leader but not the only civil rights leader. There have been many.

Kwame Nkrumah

“Kwame Nkrumah (September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972) was an anti-colonial, anti-neo-colonial, and anti-imperialist African leader from Ghana. Nkrumah was the founder and first president of the modern Ghanaian state and emerged as one of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century.”

Samora Moises Machel

“ROAPE readers will have learnt of the tragic death of President Samora Moises Machel on 19 October 1986. With profound sorrow, sadness and grief we mourn the loss of an outstanding son of Africa, the leader of the Mozambican revolution, and a committed and untiring fighter against colonialism, racism, racism, apartheid and imperialism. Under his leadership, the Mozambican people defeated Portuguese colonialism. He was a symbol of unity, a source of great inspiration for all progressive humanity. His warm personality, his deep love for the people was a shining example. He was an outstanding teacher, who taught the Mozambican people to overcome the divisive problems of racism, tribalism, obscurantism, self-ambition, apathy, incompetence, corruption and ignorance. Under his leadership, the Mozambican people scored achievements in education, health and the construction of the national economy. He created conditions for the emergence of the Mozambican nation. Baba Samora was the synthesis of the Mozambican people's revolutionary gains.”

Stokley Carmical/ as Kwame Ture

“Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later prime minister of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, he later became a black separatist and a Pan-Africanist.^[1]

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Carmichael moved with his family to New York in 1952, when he was eleven. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, a public high school for gifted students, from which he graduated in 1960 and went on to Howard University. At Howard, he joined SNCC.^[1] In his first year at the university, he participated in the Freedom Rides of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and was arrested, spending time in jail. He would go on to be arrested many times, losing count at 32.

After having helped organize voting rights drives in Mississippi in 1964, in Selma in 1965, and in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1966, he became chair of SNCC in 1966, taking over from John Lewis. A few weeks after Carmichael took over SNCC, James Meredith was shot by a sniper during his solitary "March Against Fear". Carmichael joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, and others to continue Meredith's march. He was arrested during the march; on his release, he gave his "Black Power" speech, using that phrase to urge black pride and independence:

"It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations."

MALCOLM X

Donald DeFreeze, head of the Symbionese Liberation Army

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