Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology
Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Compiled by Ulli Diemer
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April 3, 1851
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American abolitionist Frederick Douglass addresses a large anti-slavery audience in Toronto. A cheering crowd of 1200 fills St. Lawrence Hall to listen to Douglass, himself a former slave, speak on the evils of slavery.
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April 3, 1907
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Birth of Issac Deutscher (1907-1967), Marxist historian.
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April 3, 1929
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Birth of Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012), American ecologist, writer, and simple living advocate.
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April 3, 1968
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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech in Memphis. He is assassinated the next day.
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