Word: pan-african
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...month Woodson chose for this celebration, February, is fitting because it contains the birthdays of many pioneering African Americans and anniversaries of the founding of many black institutions. Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890 (the first African American to gain a doctorate from Harvard), Langston Hughes and Eubie Blake were born this month; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first Pan-African Congress were also founded in February...
...Anti-war demonstrators march to the Center for International Affairs building in Cambridge, breaking windows and causing $20,000 in damages. Fifty police officers equipped with riot gear and tear gas sweep the Square to control the disturbance. 20 - Black students from the Pan-African Liberation Committee and other groups take over Mass. Hall, demanding that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. Students form picket lines around the building, and the protestors begin a hunger strike. After 153 hours of occupation, the students voluntarily leave...
...demonstration, led by the Pan-African Liberation Committee, was resolved peacefully and Jones, who was involved with the protest, says it achieved moderate success...
...Unkhonto we Sizwe and added a military dimension to our struggle. Even then, we chose sabotage because it did not involve the loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Militant action became part of the African agenda officially supported by the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.) following my address to the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa (PAFMECA) in 1962, in which I stated, "Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence...
...black students from the Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee, two activist groups, took over Mass. Hall and demanded that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. John, who was one of the protestors inside the building, says the takeover resulted from students' unsuccessful meetings with stockholders to discuss concerns...