American Africans in Ghana : Black expatriates and the civil rights era /

In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammed Ali--visited or settle...

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Main Author: Gaines, Kevin Kelly (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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