num_pages: 736
description: This is a comprehensive look at what happened in Africa and in the United States in the sixties. Subjects covered Patrice Lumumba and his assassination, the Congo crisis and the secession of Katanga Province under Moise Tshombe. The civil rights movement in the United States; Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X; the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; the Cuban missile crisis; the Peace Corps. Political assassinations in Africa and in the United States; the Vietnam war, the anti-war movement and the counterculture in America. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa; the Organization of African Unity (OAU); The Rivonia Trial of Nelson Mandela and others; the Rhodesian crisis and unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) by the white minority rulers of Rhodesia. Nkrumah's downfall and the role of the CIA and Britain's M15 in his ouster; army mutinies in East Africa - Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika; the Zanzibar revolution; Nkrumah and Nyerere on African unity; the secession of Biafra and the Nigerian civil war; military coups in Africa. The Black Power movement in the United States; Black Panthers and the Black Panther Party; Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and others; riots in American cities, the Great Society and the War on Poverty in the United States. African liberation movements and the liberation struggle in southern Africa, and much more. Includes photos from those turbulent years in one of the most important decades in the history of Africa and of the United States.
language: English
title: Africa and America in the Sixties: A Decade That Changed the Nation and the Destiny of a Continent
titlecomplete: Africa and America in the Sixties: A Decade That Changed the Nation and the Destiny of a Continent
ratings_count: 1
publisher: New Africa Pr