Letter from Liberation Committee for Africa to United Nations Secretary General

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Liberation Committee for Africa to United Nations Secretary General
Description:
Signed Daniel H. Watts, Chairman; addressed to Dag Hammarskjold; complaining of "open discrimination and hostility" faced by many Afro-Americans trying to gain entry to U.N. buildings; furnishing "a glaring example" thereof; and noting that "if peace is to have any chance for survival it must first begin in the United Nations."
Creator:
Liberation Committee for Africa (New York, N.Y.)
Addressee:
United Nations. Secretary-General
Date:
April 26, 1961
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 153 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1A. Correspondence
Subjects:
Racism--United States
United Nations
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b153-i343
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b153-i343