Henry McNeal Turner died on this day in 1915 after a storied life as a leader of his people. He was a minister and Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; a politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives. He later began to support emigration to Africa by Black people as an answer to White political control after Reconstruction and the beginnings of Jim Crow.
On this day in 1858, John Brown led an anti-slavery convention in Chatham, Canada, which intended to advocate for a new constitution of the United States. John Brown went to lead a revolt against slavery by attacking the United States Armory in Harper’s Ferry, in then Virginia. He was later tried for treason and hanged. There was no greater advocate against slavery than John Brown.
Carole Ann-Marie Gist was born on this day in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. A model, Television hostess, and beauty pageant winner, she became Miss USA in 1990.
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