Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dictator Kwame Nkrumah outdid himself last week. He not only flatly refused to free three political prisoners who had been acquitted by Ghana's highest court, but he summarily fired the judge who had presided over their trial...
...Socialist Club received messages in praise of DuBois from six national and international leaders. Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, conveyed through the Ghanaian ambassador to the United States his "warm approval" of the meeting...
Executive officers of the club have been considering the idea of the lecture since September when they originally planned tonight's memorial meeting. They recently received a telegram from the Ghanaian ambassador to the United States informing them of the project's endorsement by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's prime minister...
...adopted. He died August 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana, on the eve of the Great March on Washington. In the 95 years of his life, Dr. DuBois combined the roles of historian, author, journalist, sociologist, politician, and educator, in an unremitting struggle against racial inequality, discrimination, and injustice. President Kwame Nkrumah, in his tributary message at the funeral in Ghana, described DuBois as "the greatest scholar the Negro race has produced...
...been persecuted, peoples of the new nations did not forget him. Delegations from the United Nations visited his home. His 90th birthday was honored throughout the People's Republic of China. The Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin International Peace Prize. And at the end of his years Dr. Kwame Nkrumah invited him to come to Africa and begin what someday may be considered his greatest contribution, the Encyclopaedia Africana. He became a citizen of Ghana three years before his death. The New England boy, born when slavery died, died belonging to the re-birth of his people...