Proudly We Can be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
- ISBN-10
- 0807826693
- ISBN-13
- 9780807826690
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- James Hunter Meriwether
Description
Meriwether explores the dynamic nature of Africa's role in African American lives from the middle 1930s to the early 1960s, during the confluence of the liberation struggles in Africa and the civil rights movement in the United States.
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