Born in the Then-French colony of Martinique in 1925, Frantz Fanon rose to become one of the most influential voices of Black Liberation & Pride, whose ideas are credited as a key influence on Black Power Movement Leaders such as Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael & George Jackson among others. A veteran of World War II, Psychiatrist & Author, Fanon took the America by storm when his book "The Wretched Of The Earth" made its way into the hands of young militants all across the country. Called "the handbook for black revolution," Fanon stressed the necessity of using violence against European & American colonial Oppression. Frantz Fanon's first book "Black Skin, White Masks" spoke to the mental, emotional & psychological domination of the European over the minds of the oppressed classes of Africans across the globe & the necessity to break those chains of manufactured inferiority. The book was actually published in 1952, but was largely ignored until being released in America in 1967. All of his writing advocated the uniting of the oppressed peasantry or Proletariat to carry out an Armed socialist revolution against colonial Exploitation. Fanon wrote at least three other books (including "Toward The African Revolution" & "A Dying Colonialism"). He also served on the Algerian Provisional Government, and as ambassador to Ghana before dying in 1961. Sadly he did not live long enough to see the very wave of Revolutionary Activity in Africa & America that preached the necessity for; but anyone familiar with his work would undoubtedly have to give him his due credit as one of the key forces that helped awaken the Black Masses of The World to Fight for Their Independence. #Salute
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