Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith was in control throughout the tour, permitted his guest from London only a fleeting glimpse of black nationalist spokesmen who oppose white rule. He was allowed three hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have...
Meanwhile Seretse was working to waken Bechuanaland politically. He formed the multiracial Bechuanaland Democratic Party, opposing Black Nationalist Phillip Matante ("the Lion of Bechuanaland") and Peking-oriented Motsamai Mpho. At one political rally, a back-country tribesman who could not pronounce the word democratic referred to the party as Domkrag-Afrikaans for automobile jack. Seretse adopted the jack as his party symbol ("It represents slow, silent power"), and last week it lifted him to victory. The red counters designating Seretse's B.D.P. flooded the ballot boxes, and 28 of the 35 seats in Bechuanaland's newly-elected legislative...
...question of Bechuanaland's relations with its neighbors. Hemmed in on all sides by white Africa (Rhodesia on the east and apartheid-minded South Africa and its South-West Africa dependency on the south, west and north), Bechuanaland is tied economically to the nations that every true black nationalist hates. With the two other British High Commission territories of Basutoland and Swaziland, Seretse's domain is joined with South Africa in a customs union, uses South African currency, and in the past has cooperated in transportation, trade, health and general development with Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's regime...
...That White Rapist." The man who lived as Malcolm X and died as John Doe was born Malcolm Little, in Omaha on May 19, 1925. His father was a Baptist preacher and an enthusiast for Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" movement. The family moved to Lansing, Mich., where, Malcolm claimed, white racists set fire to his parents' home in 1929. Two years later, when Malcolm was six, his father was run over by a streetcar, his body cut almost in half. Police called it an accident, but Malcolm insisted that his father had been bludgeoned...
...could get only 53 volunteers. In April of 1916, Casement and two other Irishmen landed on the Galway coast from a German submarine; they were captured the next day. The result was one of the century's most notorious treason trials. In its mixture of nationalist hate and sexual perversion, it seemed to expose a whole dread, unsuspected side of the Edwardian...