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The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...
Mexican-American rights activist Thích Quảng Đức: 1897 1963 South Vietnam: monk, freedom of religion self-martyr Albert Lutuli: 1898 1967 South Africa: President of the African National Congress, [4] against apartheid in South Africa, [5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [5] Edgar Nixon: 1899 1987 United States
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
A new documentary by Raoul Peck draws on a trove of photographs once thought lost. Released from a bank vault with no records attached, a mystery surrounds who put them there.
Charles Person, one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, commented from his Atlanta home, April 29, 2021: "Well there's amazement, because of the progress we've made and some disappointment because ...
This trio of African American music makers opened white America’s ears and souls to the grace of their music and their personalities, demonstrating the virtues of Black artistry and Black humanity.
Approximately 5,000 free African-American men helped the American Colonists in their struggle for freedom. One of these men, Agrippa Hull, fought in the American Revolution for over six years. He and the other African-American soldiers fought in order to improve their white neighbor's views of them and advance their own fight of freedom. [43]
Nelson Mandela's African National Congress promised South Africans "A Better Life For All" when it swept to power in the country's first democratic election in 1994, marking the end of white ...