No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000

No Easy Victories

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New Activist Voices, 1

An Unfinished Journey by William Minter

The 1950s: Africa Solidarity Rising by Lisa Brock

• Race, Ideology, and the Fall of the Council on African Affairs
• George Houser and the American Committee on Africa
• Two Voices: Charlene Mitchell and Bill Sutherland
• Alphaeus Hunton: Why Worry about Africa?
• E. S. Reddy: Behind the Scenes at the United Nations
• Robert S. Browne: A Voice of Integrity
• Peter and Cora Weiss: "The Atmosphere of African Liberation"

The 1960s: Making Connections by Mimi Edmunds

• From California to Kenya
• Mary Jane Patterson: Missionary on Two Continents
• From Kenya to New York
• Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane: Educator in Exile
• Prexy Nesbitt: Activist Networker Extraordinaire
• Mia Adjali: United Methodist Women and African Liberation
• Harry Belafonte: A Committed Life
• Charles Cobb Jr. : From Atlanta to East Africa
• Walter Bgoya: From Tanzania to Kansas and Back Again
• Miriam Makeba: "Mama Africa"
• Media for the Movement: Southern Africa Magazine

The 1970s: Expanding Networks by Joseph F. Jordan

• The Influence of the Liberation Movements
• A Watershed Moment: The Defeat of Portuguese Colonial Rule
• Strategy and Tactics
• The Link between Organizing and Community Consciousness
• Emerging Activism in the Black Community
• African Liberation Day and the ALSC
• Remembering Nyerere
• Charles Diggs and Goler Butcher: Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S. Congress
• Durham, Durban, and AllAfrica: Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman
• "The Angolan Question": Walter Rodney Speaks at Howard University, 1976
• Robert Van Lierop: A Luta Continua
• From Kenya to North America: One Woman's Journey
• From Campus to Statehouse: East Lansing Connections

The 1980s: The Anti-Apartheid Convergence by David Goodman

• Global Outrage, Local Actions: The Massachusetts Story
• The Movement at Home: U.S. Anti-Apartheid Activism
• American Activist in the Frontline States
• At Decade's End
• Sylvia Hill: From the Sixth Pan-African Congress to the Free South Africa Movement
• Jennifer Davis: Clarity, Determination, and Coalition Building
• Jean Sindab: Connecting People, Connecting Issues
• Public Investment and South Africa
• "South Africa Is Next to Namibia": The Lutheran Connection
• Race and Anti-Apartheid Work in Chicago
• From Local to National: Bay Area Connections

The 1990s: Seeking New Directions by Walter Turner

• Bay Area Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
• New Ways of Connecting
• Africa in the New Global Context
• Starting Over with Public Education
• Campaigning for Democracy in Nigeria
• New Contexts for Solidarity
• "Faces Filled with Joy": The 1994 South African Election
• Philippe Wamba: New Pan-African Generation
• How I Learned African History from Reggae
• In Motion: The New African Immigration