Labels:text | man | human face | human beard | screenshot OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Selassie, Haile Haile Selassie One of the best-known African leaders of the interwar years, Haile Selassie began his career as a provincial governor in Sidamo and Harar. He pursued antifederal, centralist reforming policies, was appointed regent and heir apparent when Emperor Menelik's daughter became empress in 1917, and was crowned emperor in 1930. Selassie acquired early experience of international affairs negotiating his country's entry into the League of Nations (1923). Nevertheless, the League failed to approve effective sanctions when Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Forced to flee, he was restored to the throne by the Allies in 1941. As a ruler, Selassie was a modernizing autoorat who shared little power with the Ethiopian Parliament. Haile Selassie, Ethiopian politician Deposed in a military coup in 1974, he died as a and emperor, 1891-1975 captive in the Imperial Palace. The Rastafarian cult, which developed in Jamaica, attributed divine status to Ras Tafari (his title as heir to the throne from 1916 to 1930) as the being who would lead the world's black population to an earthly paradise in Africa. CHRONOLOGY
