Word: africa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...behind the history of the black man in America was the sketchier but far more glorious history in Africa, "when we were kings...
...Waking up' seems to mean stressing the African heritage of the black man; do you think this will work in a culture that has been shaped more by America than by Africa...
Karenga is a "purist" nationalist and preaches a sort of up-dated, watered-down Garveyism--he is not so much interested in going back to Africa as in creating Little Africa rgiht in Los Angeles. He wants to incorporate Watts,. for instance, and call it Freedom City, with its own police force, transportation and school systems. "I am obsessed with the idea of freedom, of self-determination," Karenga said at a rally during the Watts Festival, "and I'd rather use a pump in Freedom City that we controlled than to turn on a faucet in a city where...
...scorn, Greeks bang their desk tops, and Italians hurl inkwells. The U.S. House of Representatives has witnessed its share of fist fights and even, in the 19th century, quick-draw confrontations with cocked pistols on the floor. Black magic has its place in the legislative assemblies of modern Africa. Last week in South Korea, a new, but old, weapon was added to the armory...
...University of California at Berkeley in 1943, became a merchant seaman during World War II. After the war, his talents as a promoter burst upon the archaeological world. At 26, with backing from Nimitz, President Robert Sproul of the University of California, Prime Minister Jan Smuts of South Africa and others, he organized and led a mammoth archaeological expedition from Cairo to the Cape. He established his own grandly named American Foundation for the Study of Man and led further expeditions into Sinai, Aden and Yemen...