Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baldwin's speech will be sponsored by the Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe, which received official University recognition...
Recognition came only after nine months of wrangling over the group's membership clause, which originally excluded all but "African and Afro-American students." Dean Watson and other members of the Faculty Committee on Student Activities had objected that the clause discriminated on the basis of race...
Chou nonetheless had plenty of energy for speechmaking, harped repeatedly on the Peking version of Moscow's we-will-bury-you refrain. Indeed, to hear Chou, the Afro-Asians will bury not only the West but Russia as well. "The Asian and African peoples," he proclaimed, "through their labor and intellect created illustrious civilizations which were demolished by imperialist aggression and tyranny. Now that we have broken the imperialistic shackles, we will be able to work new miracles...
...nation faces pressing problems. The per capita income is only $56 a year, and the population is still so primitive that in last summer's general election both the Nationalist Party and the opposition Afro-Shirazi Party hired witch doctors to influence the results...
...Albania, Red China's Eastern European satellite, and on the way home, a stop over in Pakistan. Competing with Moscow for friends among underdeveloped nations, Chou evidently wants to establish the yellow man's burden, even if China cannot exactly afford to pick it up. Among Afro-Asian countries, Peking's prestige has slumped badly as a result of its refusal to sign the nuclear test ban. In Africa alone, 17 of 33 nations voted last October to deny Red China a seat in the U.N., while only ten had diplomatic relations with Peking...