Name Samuel Haynes Role Poet | Died 1971 | |
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National anthem of Belize "Land of the Free"
Samuel Haynes (1899–1971) was an African-Caribbean Belizean soldier, activist and poet.
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Life and career
He was a leader of the 1919 riot by Belizean soldiers who had fought for Great Britain in World War I and refused to accept racial discrimination at home. He also wrote the lyrics of a song named "Land of the Gods", which later became Belize's national anthem, "Land of the Free".
Also, prominent in the Garvey Movement, Haynes was once the President of the Pittsburgh Division, editor/writer for the Negro World and for a brief period the Official American Representative for the UNIA-ACL 1929 under the Honorable Marcus Garvey.
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Samuel Alfred Haynes Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA