Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, Humphrey demonstrated his still-considerable hold on older, middle-class Negroes when he went before 5,000 delegates to the African Methodist Episcopal Church's quadrennial session. Applause interrupted his speech 66 times as Humphrey promised to formulate "a new and complete national commitment to human rights." The hall resounded with the fervent cries of an old-time revivalist meeting and Humphrev, the old political evangelist, joined the crowd in sineine We Shall Overcome...
...base for raids on the neighboring white supremacist regimes in Rhodesia and Southwest Africa. In turn, white agents infiltrate the country to spy on them. Zambia's 3,800,000 blacks resent the white minority of about 65,000, many of whom are Rhodesian and South African citizens who still hold the managerial jobs...
...practice, a growing number of African missionaries are willing to accept converts who they suspect are secretly practicing polygamy. Hillman concedes that the church should not encourage polygamy. But he also argues that the church should accept as converts tribesmen who have already contracted valid polygamous marriages. To do otherwise, says Hillman, means telling a man, "in the name of the Christian ideal of marriage and family life, that he must divorce the mother of his own children...
Operation Crossroads Africa, a project sending integrated student groups to Africa each summer to work with Africans on small scale development projects, is sponsoring an African Bazaar from 3-6 p.m. tomorrow at the Unitarian Church in the Square. African sculpture, fabric, music, jewelry, drawings, and photographs will be on sale...
Caves and other Faculty members who plan the economics curriculum recognize that the lack of African courses is a problem in the University, but they do not feel that this problem is of special concern for the Economics Department. No priorities will be altered to provide economic courses on African development; and without an alteration, there is little guarantee that students' requests for African courses will be met, even in a department with access to faculty who could teach the courses...