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Letter from Harry Belafonte to MLK

Correspondence, May 2, 1967
SOUTH AFRICA, UGANDA, New York (NY), Chicago, IL, CONGO / ZAIRE, ETHIOPIA, KENYA, TANZANIA, ZAMBIA, GUINEA, MALI, SENEGAL, NIGERIA, ALGERIA, EGYPT, LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA, San Francisco, CA

Harry Belafonte outlines the details of the African Program to Dr. King. The document references King's future delegation to several African countries and emphasizes the "Afro-American Banking Proposal" as a topic of interest.

The Negro Heritage Library

Brochure/Pamphlet
New York (NY), Birmingham, AL, Pennsylvania (PA), California (CA), BURUNDI, CAMEROON, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD, CONGO / ZAIRE, ETHIOPIA, GABON, GAMBIA, GHANA, GUINEA, Co'te D'IVOIRE / IVORY COAST, KENYA, LIBERIA, MALAWI, MALI, NIGER, NIGERIA, RWANDA, SENEGAL, SIERRA LEONE, TOGO, UGANDA, ZAMBIA

The Negro Heritage Library sought to make the Negro community aware of the cultural "black-out" that was due to the inadequacies within the nations history books.The president of the library, Noel N. Marder, focused the energies and resources from the Educational Heritage. As the most respected spokesman for the Negro of his time, there is a section focused solely on Dr. King's work.