Princess Laura Adorkor Kofi
In the early 20th century, the civil rights charge had not become a formidable national movement in the US. Cooperation between activists was limited to correspondence over isolated matters.
Even then, there was Laura Adorkor Kofi, a Gold Coaster from modern Ghana who had gone to the US to fight for black people supposedly according to divine revelation. The woman known as “Prophetess” became a vocal critic of segregation and advocated for blacks to return to Africa.
However, a member of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association shot Kofi to death while she was preaching to a crowd in Miami, Florida.
