Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to George Padmore

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Title:
Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to George Padmore
Description:
Noting receipt of Kwame Nkrumah's official invitation to the Gold Coast and lamenting that economically the trip lies outside the realm of possibility; noting some unsuccessful attempts to contact his ministers of health and finance, respectively; and commenting despairingly on the state of American presidential politics.
Creator:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Addressee:
Padmore, George, 1902-1959
Date:
February 6, 1957
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 161 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1A. Correspondence
Subjects:
Pan-African Movement
Ghana--History--1957-
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
Places:
Ghana
Extent:
1 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b161-i236
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b161-i236