Publisher's Synopsis
"The 1961 CIA-sanctioned assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba galvanized Black nationalist and Pan-African resistance in the US. The poet and writer Maya Angelou helped organize an important high-profile protest at the United Nations. Based on their ideological and political commitments, various Black intellectuals took a stand for or against the protestors. The episode illustrated how white power structures attempted to create fissures in the movement for. international Black liberation."-- p. [1].
