Word: africanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...works at the job 20 hours a day. He has moved back with his wife and four children to Atlanta, where he shares the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father. His house, near the church, is an old, two-story, four-bedroom place. Paintings with African themes and a photograph of Gandhi hang on the walls. There is a threadbare scatter rug in the living room, two chairs protected with plastic, and a couch in need of a new slip
Where most Negroes once deliberately ignored their African beginnings and looked down on the blacks of that continent, many now identify strongly with Africa-though not to the point where they would repudiate their American loyalties-and take pride in the emergence of the new nations there. Some Negro women are affecting African-style hairdos; Negroes are decorating their homes with paintings and sculpture that reflect interest in African culture. There has been a decline in sales of "whitening" creams, hair straighteners and pomades, which for years found a big market among Negroes obsessed with ridding themselves of their racial...
...Congress, and are counseling patience until at least the end of this month. They are also carefully gauging the position of Lyndon Johnson. So far, the President's resolute support of the civil rights bill has been encouraging. Says the Rev. L. Sylvester Odom of Denver's African Methodist Episcopal Church: "Personally I wouldn't be surprised if President Johnson gets more out of Congress than President Kennedy could have. He may not get as deeply into the hearts of the people, but he may do pretty well with
...Bella held four political discussions with Chou during his week-long visit. High on the agenda was Peking's desire for another Bandung-type conference of Asian and African nations; the Red Chinese see such a meeting as a device to draw fence-sitting countries closer to their own camp in world affairs. At a press conference in Algiers, Chou declared that Ben Bella was in favor of another "Bandung," though it was not entirely clear just how enthusiastic Ben Bella felt on the subject. But when Chou lashed out at "U.S. imperialism" at a closed meeting of Algerian...
...Resistance during the war, served for a time as a Gaullist in North Africa. After the Liberation, Defferre was elected mayor of Marseille, has served continuously in Parliament since 1946, and was a decolonizer long before De Gaulle: the 1956 loi-cadre, giving autonomy to France's African empire, was Defferre's creation...