Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maryland amusement park. Last month, Dr. William Fitzjohn, charge d'affaires of newly emerging Sierra Leone, was snubbed out of another Howard Johnson restaurant, this one in Hagerstown, Md. In recent weeks, according to U.S. State Department reports, diplomatic staffers from Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia, Cameroun and Ethiopia have suffered indignities of various sorts because of the color of their skin...
Hansberry's talk, entitled "African History and Its Relevance to Contemporary Affairs," emphasized the 3000-year cultural heritage of the so-called Dark Continent. He listed the great empires of ancient Africa, including many with familiar names: Ghana, Melle (Mali), and Ethiopia...
...world press for the last quarter of a century of the sad little king pleading the cause of his beloved people before the League of Nations at Geneva is at long last fading from view and, in fact, its complete erasure from the world press in stories about Ethiopia today is long since overdue...
...pictures in your Jan. 2 issue, "Emperor's Homecoming" and "Rebel Leader Hanging in Addis Ababa," are closer to the real Ethiopia of 1961 and its ruler and are more appropriate. The first shows a subject groveling at the feet of the Lion of Judah, and the second, "the bullet-riddled corpse of a rebel chieftain hanged in a public square...
...country completely disenchanted with its ruler, the Ministry of Education maintained "prison rooms" for students "with advanced ideas of equality and democracy" in its compound adjoining University College and public floggings of such students were a frequent practice. The hanging of corpses will not keep the people of Ethiopia for long in ignorance and poverty at the feet of a despot...