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Govan Mbeki, born on this day in 1901, was a communist journalist and South African revolutionary. He was imprisoned by the apartheid government for more than 24 years, and served in the post-apartheid government from 1994 to 1999.
Image: Rivonia trialist and African National Congress (ANC) leader Govan Mbeki, who spent 23 years in jail on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, greets supporters and well-wishers on his first full day of release into freedom, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, November 6th, 1987.
June Jordan, born on this day in 1936, was a queer Jamaican-American author, feminist, and educator whose works include Some of Us Did Not Die and Report From the Bahamas. "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
The Phoenix Program, founded on this day in 1967 via the MACV Directive, was a CIA program implemented to destroy the Viet Cong (VC) via infiltration, torture, interrogation, and assassination, explicitly targeting non-combatants.