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After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.
Though it was rare for black people in the 18th century to receive an education, Francis Williams and his siblings were able to afford schooling due to their father's wealth. Francis travelled to Europe, where he was reported to be in 1721. [12] In the 1720s, Williams returned to Jamaica, where he set up a free school for black children. [13]
Samuel Sharpe, or Sharp (1801 – 23 May 1832), [1] also known as Sam Sharpe, [2] was an enslaved Jamaican who was the leader of the widespread 1831–32 Baptist War slave rebellion (also known as the Christmas Rebellion) in Jamaica. He was proclaimed a National Hero of Jamaica on 31 March 1982 [3] and his image is on the $50 Jamaican banknote. [4]
Nelson Mandela's African National Congress promised South Africans "A Better Life For All" when it swept to power in the country's first democratic election in 1994, marking the end of white ...
The Montego Bay “Street People” scandal was a conspired attempt by the St James Parish Council truck and law enforcement to secretly transport groups of Homeless people in Montego Bay to a St Elizabeth parish to be dumped near a mud lake. Killings of civilians by police in Jamaica remain an important topic in the discussion of human rights.
In a 1990 speech at the Oakland Coliseum, Mandela acknowledged the Campaign Against Apartheid -- one of the main campus organizations -- by name, thanking them for their solidarity and ...
President of the African National Congress, [4] against apartheid in South Africa, [5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [5] Edgar Nixon: 1899 1987 United States: Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist Roy Wilkins: 1901 1981 United States: NAACP executive secretary/executive director Harriette Moore: 1902 1951 United States
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