Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 Commentary & Opinion 17 and California

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Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 Commentary & Opinion 17 and CaliforniaThe mid twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social lives of African Americans. Paying particular attention to such important figures and organizations as W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and the