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American Committee on Africa records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 012
Scope and Contents
The records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) measure approximately 146 linear feet and document the foundation and development of a U.S.-based organization dedicated to support of anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements throughout Africa during the mid to late 20th century. The records date from 1948-1987, and include administrative records, program records and materials collected by the committee from various institutions and organizations throughout the world involved and...
Dates:
Created: 1948-1987; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1983
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
American Committee on Africa records addendum
Collection
Identifier: 012-1
Scope and Contents
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) records addendum (1949-2001; bulk 1971-1997) covers the era of Africa's liberation (independence) movements against British, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese colonialism and their imperialistic policy toward the continent, including aspects of both settler and exploitation colonialism, mainly in the African countries of Angola, Guinea Bissau, Namibia, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and South Africa. The records also document the relationship of the United...
Dates:
Created: 1949-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1997; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) records
Collection
Identifier: 736
Scope and Contents
The records of the Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) consist of research files, collected news clippings, presentation papers, publications, periodicals, and reports (1977-1983), as well as files generated during the tenure of National Coordinator Carole Collins (1981-1983). A smaller amount of material that the organization created includes correspondence, occasional minutes of meetings and reports, lists of bank lenders to South Africa and networking contacts. Of...
Dates:
Created: 1967-1995; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1983; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Marguerite Cartwright papers
Collection
Identifier: 72
Content Description
The papers of actress, journalist and educator Dr. Marguerite Cartwright chronicle her personal life, career and academic endeavors. The collection encompasses 165.59 linear feet and provides an in-depth look at African Americans and world affairs, contemporary issues facing the United States in the mid-twentieth century, the anti-colonialism movement following World War II, and the United Nations through her work as an accredited UN correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier. She was...
Dates:
1912-1984
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Carole J.L. Collins papers
Collection
Identifier: 748
Content Description
The Carole J.L. Collins papers consist of collected research materials in the forms of articles, book chapters, conference and presentation papers, news clippings, press releases and statements, publications, speeches, and reports with occasional correspondence and manuscripts drafts for work authored by Collins and her spouse, journalist Steve Askin. The papers mainly focus on the African country of Zaire (1971-1997), its banking and economy, diamond and ivory trade, human rights...
Dates:
Other: 1974-2003
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- Apartheid -- South Africa 4
- Africa -- Economic conditions 3
- Africa -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements 3
- Africa -- Politics and government 3
- Africa -- Race relations 3
- Anti-apartheid movements 3
- Apartheid -- South Africa -- Periodicals 3
- Disinvestment -- South Africa 2
- Human rights advocacy -- Africa 2
- National liberation movements -- Africa 2
- Nationalism -- Africa 2
- Africa, West 1
- African American newspapers 1
- African Americans 1
- Art, African 1
- Blacks -- Relations with Jews 1
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- Jewish-Arab relations 1
- Jews 1
- Jews -- United States -- Attitudes 1
- Liberia 1
- Moving images 1
- Nigeria 1
- Race discrimination -- United States 1
- Race relations -- Economic aspects 1
- Sound recordings 1
- South Africa -- Foreign economic relations 1
- South Africa -- Race relations 1
- United States -- Foreign economic relations 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century 1
- Yugoslavia 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Africa Fund (New York, N.Y.) 3
- Collins, Carole J.L 2
- Houser, George M. 2
- Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) 1
- Cartwright, Marguerite, 1910-1986 1
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