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I do not know when I will have the time to update this page.
The world entered the new century, not Ethiopia. According to her calendar, it's still eight years ahead. I hope that maybe by then HIM will have his burial and Ethiopia can remove the curse from itself.
" EVERYONE in all walks of life, regardless of professional occupation, should feel concerned and play an active role to solve the problems that affect mankind." H.I.M.
Haile Sellassie, World Leaders and the Last Century of the Millenium
2004. The webpages on Ethiopia and history are the background for the book "HIM".
The book is not finished and I do not know when, if ever, the manuscript could be finished.
Too many other projects I have, in addition to teaching full time at University of Alaska.
I work on Sellassie pages only when it's a must (like now, when I have to save the pages @ sellassie.ourfamily.com -- I paid them to remove the banners).
Anatoly
The entire life of Haile Sellassie represents the story of the century. On our old website go to the History Road (History Pages Guide) to see the history through the life of one man. See review on HIM Biography
I gave the One Hundred project to my children's total control; they collect the data, photos and put together the pages. I only assist them with some HTML help (like voting polls) and, of course, it takes longer than we thought to complete it. Anatoly March 19, 1999.
Black People Who Change the World:
Nelson Mandela
After spending 27 years behind bars in South Africa for fighting apartheid (a former policy of
segregation and discrimination), Nelson Mandela became president
of his country. He is now revered by South Africans as father of
their nation and by people around the world.
Rosa Parks
Parks, known as "the mother of the civil rights movement," walked into history on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat for a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Parks was arrested for her defiance, and she agreed
to challenge the segregation order in court. After this tactic
failed, Parks and others organized the Montgomery bus boycott:
"For a little more than a year, we stayed off those busses.
We did not return to using public transportation until the
Supreme Court said there shouldn't be racial segregation."
Parks and others lost their jobs, and she was harassed and
threatened. The boycott held, and an important corner was turned
in the movement. Parks and her family eventually moved to
Detroit, where she worked for many years for Congressman John
Conyers. She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for
Self-Development to offer guidance to young African-Americans in
preparation for leadership and careers.
Martin Luther King Jr
The nation remembered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with prayers, marches and volunteerism on Monday and, for the first time, a halt in trading on U.S. financial marketsKing, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968 He would have turned 69 last Thursday.The Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. is assassinated* in Memphis, Tenn., unleashing violence in
more than 100 cities.In response to King's death, Seattle residents hurled firebombs, broke windows, and pelted motorists with rocks.
Ten thousand people also marched to Seattle Center for a rally in his memory.
Marcus Garvey
By the time Garvey was twenty, he was a master printer and foreman of the P.A. Benjamin Co. Troubles for Garvey were on the way, though. On January 14,
1907, there was an earthquake and fire. This caused low wages and scarcity of commodities. The Printer's Union went on strike and made Garvey their leader. The strike eventually broke, and most of the workers got their jobs back
except Garvey. This caused him to distrust the role unions could play in helping the black worker. Garvey went to work for the government and edited an unsuccessful newsletter called Garvey's Watchman. This was the first in a long line of unsuccessful attempts by Garvey before the UNIA. He left his job to go to Costa Rica. There, he worked for the United Fruit Co. He recognized the awful plight of the black field workers. He went to Limon to protest but was met with indifference and another failed paper, La Nationale. He traveled to Panama, Equador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Columbia, and Venezuela. At all places he found the inferior status of the Negro. In spite of the difficulties his movement had, Garvey became a symbol of black freedom. His powerful oratory gave pride and hope to thousands of working class blacks
around the world.
(c)2004 * 25 years later (Time)
