Adelaide Casely-Hayford

Adelaide Casely-Hayford, was a Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist of cultural nationalism, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist. Committed to public service, she worked to improve the conditions of black men and women. As a pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone, she played a key role in popularizing Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s. She set up a Girls' Vocational and Training School in Freetown in 1923 to instil cultural and racial pride for Sierra Leoneans under colonial rule. In pursuit of Sierra Leone national identity and cultural heritage, she caused a sensation by wearing traditional African attire in 1925 to attend a reception in honour of the Prince of Wales.

2 June 1865

Born on the same birth date (2 June 1865): George Lohmann

Born on the same birth day (2 June): Colin Brittan • Cornel West • Crescenzio Sepe • Dayana Cadeau • Feleti Mateo • Johnny Carter (singer) • Merril Bainbridge • Richard Skuse • Tony Hadley • Ünal Aysal

Born in the same month (June 1865): Albéric Magnard • Bernard Berenson • Carl Nielsen • Frederick Cook • George Lohmann • George Redmayne Murray • George V • John Monash • Karl Blossfeldt • May Whitty • Robert Henri • Susan La Flesche Picotte • W. B. Yeats