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On this day, 20 July 1925, Frantz Omar Fanon, psychiatrist, revolutionary and pioneering anti-colonialist theorist was born in Martinique, a French colony. He served in the Free French Army during World War II in North Africa, and like many Black colonial troops, experienced racism. Living in Algeria he supported the independence movement until he was forced to leave the country, at which point he became an ambassador for the Algerian National Liberation Front. His seminal works include ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ (1952), ‘Studies in a Dying Colonialism’ (1959) and 'The Wretched of the Earth’ (1961), and focused not just on the politics and economic’s of colonialism but also its internal and psychological effects. A number of his works are available online free at libcom.org/tags/frantz-fanon, and we have made available this detailed biographical account of his life: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/frantz-fanon-a-biography-david-macey https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1479655912219554/?type=3