Committee to Support the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Creator

Mike Shuster

Place Created

New York, United States

Date

September 24, 1974

Type of Item

Photograph

Description

Robert Maurer (right) founder and executive director of the Committee to Support the Republic of Guinea-Bissau presenting Gil Fernandes (center), a member of the Supreme Council of the PAIGC, with a scroll bearing the "Message of Solidarity from the People of the United States to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau" signed by 9,365 people. Dramane Ouattara, Ambassador of the Organization of African Unity to the United Nations, looks on. The presentation was made at a Celebration of Solidarity held in New York on September 24, 1974, one year after the PAIGC declared the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. There had been a coup in the Portugal, the colonizer, in April 1974 and the new government granted...

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Publisher

Committee to Support the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Organization

Committee to Support the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Coverage Africa

Guinea-Bissau

Language

English

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Rights Management

Used by permission of Mike Shuster; and Robert Maurer, the founder and executive director of the Committee to Support the Republic of Guinea Bissau.

Collection

Private collection of Richard Knight