African Activist Archive

Contents: Angola • Former Portuguese Colonies • Corporate Involvement in South Africa • South Africa Advertisements in the New York Times • Namibia Seal Skins • South Africa Airways • Cultural Protest • Africa Defense and Ad Fund • Washington Activities • Conferences and Seminars • The Africa Fund • Publications • Board Additions • Financial Results • AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA • THE AFRICA FUND • Executive Board • Staff • National Committee • General Counsel • Washington Office On Africa • The report says the coup in Portugal set in motion events that shaped ACOA activity in 1975; Mozambique became independent on June 25th, Cape Verde on July 5th, Sao Tome and Principe on July 13th; dominating the year, however, were events in Angola, formally independent on November 11th but unable to begin the task of national reconstruction because of internal conflicts enormously inflamed by foreign intervention. The report discusses President Jomo Kenyatta, the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), George Houser, Ray Gould, Paul Irish, William Booth, the Washington, D.C. Council of Churches, IBM, Control Data, ITT, Motorola, the D.C. City Council, Jennifer Davis, Mayor Richard Hatcher, Rev. Sterling Cary, the National Council of Churches, The Southern Company, the Southwide Coalition to Stop South African Coal, Timothy Smith, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), Union Carbide, Rhodesian chrome, the New York City Human Rights Commission, Ramsey Clark, Peter Weiss, Michael Davis, Douglas Wachholz, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Leonard Meeker, the Center for Law and Social Policy, Michael Peay, Golar Butcher, the Commerce Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board, Roderic Boggs, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Joan Sandler, the Black Theater Alliance, Ann Early, Writers in Residence, Robert Browne, the Black Economic Research Center. Congressman Charles Diggs, Frederick O'Neal, Actors Equity, Sammy Davis, Jr., Richard Roundtree, Victor Borge, Diahann Carol, Synos Mangazva, Tapson Mawere, William Johnston, Nathaniel Davis, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Peter Weiss, Henry Kissinger, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Johnson Foundation, the Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, Yoko Kitazawa, Herb Shore, Edgar Lockwood, Susan G. Rogers, Sheena Duncan, Samora Machel, Elombe Brath, More Foner, Collin Gonze, David Lampel, Oseye Mchawi, Robert Van Lierop, and Frederick A.O. Schwartz.

African Activist Archive

Annual Report 1975

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