Pan African National Crusade, Speaker's Corner Hyde Park late 1960s SCO 6085
America's official consciousness of black Africa began with the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Colonialism was in flight, and Kennedy was squarely behind those who had won or were about to win their freedom. Washington during this period was wide-eyed in its hopes for democracy in Africa. It was generous in its grants of aid and technical assistance and engaged in covert intervention to prevent the new nations from tying themselves to the Soviet Union. During this period the independence of black African nations emboldened the black power movement in the United States. The example and the rhetoric of the new governments encouraged black Americans, just as black power in the United States subsequently helped stimulate the rise of a black consciousness movement in apartheid-ridden South Africa. In many ways the ideological forebears of the African movements of independence and black power were the same: both Marcus Garvey's back to Africa crusade of the 1920s and the Pan-African Congresses of the 1920s to 1940s. Many of the Africans who led the Congresses and later became national leaders in West Africa had been schooled in the United States and had incorporated its social and political values.
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Location: Speaker's Corner Hyde Park London England UK
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