The Interconnectedness of Black Liberation: The Cross-Political Relationship of African and African American Leaders in the Struggle for Independence and the Civil Rights Movement (1950–60)
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Yakubu, Mina
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
- Abstract
- The linkages between African and African American freedom advocates began long before their demands actualized in the latter half of the 1950s and early 1960s. Some of the leaders of this global Black movement for self-determination met when they were students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States, notably, Lincoln University and Howard University. While these movements and their aims were generally connected, this article examines the close relationships of their political leaders. It was partly through their relationships that they were able to advance their political demands for freedom. The article explores the cross-political ties of African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe, and of African American leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois, in their respective movements for human rights recognition from 1950 to the early 1960s. This was a time in which legal segregation and racial violence targeted Black people in the United States and the presence of European colonialism encroached on the sovereignty of Africans. This article explores how these political relations and the events of these movements influenced one another. This research intends to help readers understand the interconnectedness of the global Black struggle for self-determination, specifically as it relates to African American Civil Rights leaders and the leaders of independence movements in Africa like Azikiwe and Nkrumah, who would become the first presidents of Nigeria and Ghana, respectively.
- Date of publication
- 2022
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- Journal title
- Global Africana Review
- Journal volume
- 6
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 26
- Page end
- 37
- Language
- English
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