On May 6, 1812, Martin Robison Delany was born free in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia). A visionary intellectual, physician, and one of the first African Americans admitted to Harvard Medical School, Delany was a leading figure in the 19th-century Black nationalist movement. He advocated for African American pride, self-determination, and even African repatriation long before these ideas entered the mainstream. As co-editor of The North Star with Frederick Douglass and a Union Army officer during the Civil War, Delany embodied the fusion of scholarship, activism, and military service. His legacy laid critical groundwork for future Pan-Africanist and Black empowerment ideologies.
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