Africa -- Economic conditions
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
The Africa Fund records
Collection
Identifier: 744
Scope and Contents
The Africa Fund records cover the era independence movements on the African continent against the British, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese colonial governments. The records document settler and exploitative colonialism that occurred in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The records also cover the era of civil wars within these African countries following independence, including South Africa's apartheid government and anti-apartheid campaigns there, as well as in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1997; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-1995; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1983; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Doley Securities, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: 124
Abstract
The records of Doley Securities, Inc. encompass the firm’s working files for Syndication, the United States government-owned asset management company the Resolution Trust Corporation, prospectuses, underwriting agreements, audit documentation, trading statements, and reports.
Dates:
1963-2011
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Edward R. Dudley papers
Collection
Identifier: 136
Scope and Contents
The Edward R. Dudley papers consist of correspondence, speeches, reports, press clippings, and other materials dating from when Dudley was legal counsel to the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands and when he was Ambassador to Liberia, Manhattan Borough President, and Administrative Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York. The correspondence, which is arranged chronologically, includes letters, memoranda, radiograms, and interoffice communiqués. About one half...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1945-1950; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center