African Activist Archive

Contents: Purpose • Resources available on Southern Africa • Constituency • Groups working out of the Center • Programs • Management of the Center • Role of the Literature Coordinator • Problems • The report says the purpose of the project, which began one year ago, is to reach people in the Chicago/Midwest area with information about the struggles for liberation in Southern Africa; the project is centered at the New World Resource Center in Chicago, a store-front combination bookstore/library/meeting place; resources are available on the Third World generally, U.S. economic and military involvement abroad, liberation movements, and action projects. The report says Southern Africa has been a major focus of the Center, the only bookstore in the Midwest which carries a complete selection of materials on the subject; in the past year, the work around Southern Africa has expanded beyond store sales and mail orders of literature; the Center has become a resource for several newly formed groups working around Southern Africa - either as a major or partial focus of their work; these groups include Black Workers Congress, Southern Africa Liberation Information Group (SALIG), African American So11darity Committee, United Church of Christ Southern Africa Task Force, Africa Information Service, an educational program for Black prisoners, and the Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guine (CCLAMG). The report also describes actions on Southern Africa in Chicago, including on Continental Bank, Anti-Rhodesia Demonstration, Rhodesia out of the Olympics, and meeting with political candidates on African issues. The report says a "Southern Africa Solidarity Day" was organized on November 19, 1972; speakers from FRELIMO and MPLA, as well as Bob Van Lierop, Michey Smith, Prexy Nesbitt, Ruth Minter and Wandile Kuse served as resources. The report says groups working out of the Center are CCLAMG, the Chicago Area Group of Latin America (CAGLA), the U.S. China Peoples Friendship Organization, the Chicago Anti-Imperialist Collective (CAIC), the Indo-China Committee, and groups forming around Prisoner Supports and Middle East interests. The report discusses liberation movements, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Liberation Support Movement, Africa Research Group, International Defense and Aid (International Defense and Aid Fund), Southern Africa Committee, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the United Nations, Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa (MACSA), Angola Comite, Church groups, African American Solidarity Committee, the Committee for Freedom in Mozambique, Angola, and Guine (London), the United Church of Christ Southern Africa Task Force, Africa Information Service, Gil Fernandez, Dennis Brutus, Sharfudine Khan, Ben Magubane, Theo-Ben Gurirab, and Dixon Phiri.

African Activist Archive

Report to the ACOA Board from the Chicago Literature Distribution Project

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