African Activist Archive

Contents: PROGRAM • My years with the American Committee on Africa • George Houser His Personal Chronology • Jennifer Davis Our New Director • I Remember George • Recollections • Messages to George Houser from African Leaders • Special Supplement • Statement to George... • Sponsors • Special Thanks • The program includes: Hon. William H. Booth, President, American Committee on Africa (ACOA); Peter Molotsi, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania; Elizabeth Landis, Vice President, ACOA; David Houser. James Farmer; Chet Washington, actor, singer, film-maker and President, Paul Robeson Productions; Debbie Lapidus, accompanist; Peter Weiss, President, ACOA 1962-1972; Frank Montero, Chairman, The Africa Fund; Mustafa Sam, Deputy Representative, Organization of African Unity Mission to the United Nations; Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; Gil Fernandez; African National Congress (South Africa) representative; Olatunji, Drummers and Dancers; Moses Garoeb, Administrative Secretary, South West African People's Organization (SWAPO of Namibia); George Houser film; Presentation to George Houser by Jennifer Davis, and George Houser, "My Years with the American Committee on Africa." The program includes messages from African leaders including Julius K. Nyerere, President, Tanzania; Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister, Zimbabwe; Kenneth Kaunda, President, Zambia; Sam Nujoma, President, SWAPO; Oliver Tambo, Acting President General ANC; Henry Isaacs, Director of Foreign Affairs, PAC; Adel Hakim, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic; Johnny Makhathini , ANC Chief Representative to the UN; Janet Rae Mondlane, National Director of International Cooperation, Mozambique; M.N. Pather, Secretary General, South African Council of Sport; .N..M. Shamuyarira, Minister of Information and Tourism, Zimbabwe; Mohamed Sahnoun, Ambassador of Algeria to France; E. J. M. Zvobgo. Minister of Local Government and Housing; and Alfred Nzo, Secretary-General, African National Congress. The Special Supplement includes Statements to George from Cleveland Robinson, Secy. Treas. District 65, U.A.W.; Bill Sutherland, Co-founder, Americans for South African Resistance; Prexy Nesbitt, Programme Secretary, Commission on the Programme to Combat Racism, World Council of Churches; Abdul Minty, British Anti-Apartheid Movement; Sam Ramsamy, Chairman, SAN-ROC, South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee; Richard Lapchick National Chairperson, ACCESS (The American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society); and Michael Scott. The program discusses the FLN, Polisario, the Defiance Campaign, Jim Crow laws, the CPP (Convention People's Party), Kwame Nkrumah, the All African People's Conference, Eduardo Mondlane, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Tom Mboya, the Kenya Federation of Labor, the Rhodesian military, ZANU-PF, PAIGC, African liberation, and the Front Line States.

African Activist Archive

a tribute to George Houser

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