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Haile Selassie crowned and the rise of Rastafari

1930Notable

Ras Tafari Makonnen is crowned Ethiopian emperor as Haile Selassie I. Jamaican preachers hail him as a divine messiah, and the Rastafari movement grows in the 1930s.

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