was born on 18 May 1951 in the Caribbean port of Trujillo, Honduras, in the municipality of Colón. Her parents had migrated from Corozal to Trujillo for more job opportunities. Trujillo plays a central role in the complicated geography and history of the African diaspora in Honduras. Christopher Columbus landed there in 1502, during his fourth and final voyage to the Americas, and under Spanish colonial rule Trujillo briefly became the capital of Honduras. From 1542 to 1638 it was the main entry point of the transatlantic slave trade into Honduras and the rest of Central America (England and Anderson, 1998 Born into a rich black and African heritage on the Honduran Caribbean coast Mirtha Colón emerged as a key political and activist figure in the 1980s transnational migration histories of the African descended Garifuna who arrived in New York City specifically the South Bronx from Central ...
Paul Joseph López Oro
philanthropist and auto worker, was born the fifth of seven children to Bessie Hall and Matel Dawson, Sr. in Shreveport, Louisiana, on 3 January 1921. Like tens of thousands of other black men and women, Dawson left the South and moved to Detroit for better paying jobs created by the demands of the World War II economy.
He began working for the Ford Motor Company in 1940 initially earning about $1 15 an hour He became a forklift operator Known for consistently working twelve hour shifts and weekends and for seldom taking time off he diligently saved as much of his salary as he could He also invested in the company s employee stock program At one time he owned a large home and well appointed automobiles but after his divorce in the late 1970s he sought a simpler lifestyle and lived frugally In the early ...
Ghanaian gold miner and business executive, was born in Kibi, a town in the Eastern Region of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), on 19 November 1949. His father, Thomas Jonah, was a veteran of the Second World War who had started his own construction business by the time Sam was born. His mother, Beatrice Sampson, was a housewife who sold homemade goods on the side. One of seven siblings and two cousins in the Jonah household, Jonah grew up in the mining town of Obuasi, where his father had relocated as a subcontractor for the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (AGC/Ashanti Goldfields) in 1950. Sam Jonah received his secondary school education at the prestigious Adisadel College in Cape Coast between 1962 and 1969. After working for about a year as a laborer at the Ashanti Goldfields in 1969 he went on to study mine engineering at the Camborne ...