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Title Page, Copyright 1 Contents 7 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 15 Prologue 25 One: Ethiopia 41 Two: In World War and Cold War 71 Three: South Africa 104 Four: Kenya 138 Five: Ghana 164 Six: The Year of Africa 195 Seven: Congo 222 Epilogue 255 Notes 261 Selected Bibliography 321 Index 339 Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press,Published:2002,ISBN:9781469606064,Related ISBN:9780807826690,Language:English,OCLC:52384146 The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social lives of African Americans. Paying particular attention to such important figures and organizations as W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and the NAACP, Meriwether incisively utilizes the black press, personal correspondence, and oral histories to render a remarkably nuanced and diverse portrait of African American opinion.Meriwether builds the book around seminal episodes in modern African history, including nonviolent protests against apartheid in So

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Author

Meriwether, James Hunter

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781469606064

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Political Science