Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus G. Mennen Williams, Undersecretary of State of African Affairs, summed up the major problem facing the United States in its African relations...
...demonstration commemorated the Sharpeville massacre of 68 non-violent demonstrators on March 21, 1960. By putting pressure on private investment in South Africa, the Boston Committee hopes to reduce the 400 million dollars U.S. trade which is supporting the segregationist regime. U.N. and African leaders insist that sanctions on trade are the only alternative to a bloody race war in South Africa...
Hard Hats & Gas Masks. The march took place on the afternoon of Sunday, March 7. Ignoring an order from Governor Wallace forbidding the march, 650 Negroes and a few whites assembled at the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Selma's Sylvan Street. Leading them were John Lewis, militant head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.), and Hosea Williams, an official of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Two abreast, many of them laden with bedrolls and knapsacks, the Negroes filed through the back streets of Selma, turned onto Broad Street, and headed...
...ruled for eight months without the weight of a Parliament around his neck. What with the rebels in the northeast, nearly half the nation under a state of emergency, and much of the rest crippled by anarchy, he would probably be happy to continue governing by decree indefinitely. But African public opinion demands the trappings of democracy, and under the elaborate constitution drawn up last year, Tshombe must call elections before April 1. This week, barely two weeks before the deadline, they begin...
...Mennen Williams, former governor of Michigan and undersecretary of state for African affairs, will speak on "Perspectives on African Policles" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...