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Working Class History on Nostr: #OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to ...

#OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fought under the codename "Ali" in the Iwo battalion, and later moved to Britain https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9481/august-agbola-o'browne-born