African Activist Archive

Contents: Attendance • 2. Staff report-NY office • a) Arrangements during George Houser's absence • b) Gulf Oil • c) Portuguese emphasis • d) Memo • 3. Finance Report • 4. Elections • 5. Visa Case of Mrs. W. E. B. DuBois • 6. Washington Report • 7. Field Work • a) Prexy Nesbitt in Chicago • b) Ken Butler - New Jersey • 8. Blood Campaign • 9. Africa Defense and Aid Fund (ADAF) Expenditures • Janet Hooper explained multiple protests expected at Gulf Oil stockholders meeting in Pittsburgh: the "Gulf Action Project (composed primarily of Pittsburgh resistance people) is stressing the Mellons; ACOA and NY churches are focusing on Gulf operations in Angola; other groups are talking about the entire imperialist world of Gulf. The minutes mention Richard Stevens, Gulf stock, Lincoln University, Dr. George Cannon, William Scott, Princeton, support for the FRELIMO office in the U.S., Sharfudine Khan, Frederick Schwarz, the Nominating Committee, W.E.B. DeBois and memorial lecture series at Fisk University, speaking engagements, the Department of State, citizenship, Senator Scott, Congressman Conyers, Senator Brooke, Barbara Watson, the Black press, the Massachusetts DuBois park monument, the New York Times, Charles Hightower, a joint declaration by Black Congressmen, a student internship program, Congressman Bingham's office, the sugar quota, Washington Notes on Africa, liberation movements, seminar for social studies teachers in Chicago, the Engelhard stockholders meeting, Newark, Robert Browne, a southern Africa committee at Rutgers, trade unions, the UAW (United Auto Workers) newsletter, the Engelhard demonstration, Dr. Mike Holloman, the black community, the Africa Fund, Robert Browne, Winifred Courtney, George Daniels, Herschel Halbert, John L.S. Holloman, David Jones, Elizabeth Landis, Frank Montero, William Scheinman, Adelaide Schulkind, Hope Stevens, Lydia Williams, Ben Peterson, Janet Hooper, Sue Berman, Ken Butler, and Karen Oawalt.

African Activist Archive

Executive Board Meeting April 20, 1970

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