Finances rf�uney
tnct
a in
A&icao-American executive
ould ther the 5 of
corporate America.
·T e U.S. African-
- With a A rican con umer market I
generatess more than S300 bil­
lion a ye r,· said NAMD
president Charles E. Mor­
rison. "As it relates to gr na­
lion I product, this market
would represent the ninth
larg country in the world in
ter of their spending power.
E tabli bed in 1953,
NAMD· a pr�es. SI4·lDaI
. It merehandi ing, public
relations, Its, urban/com­
munity affairs and related
11.
. Tr·· d, very muell
wlYed· the anti-coloaial
ctnll�. He the ardiitect
of the iU-f ted W' Indian
�tion of the early 1960s.
After bei ccd under
OUIC arrest by his former
prote e a d the t en .
. Trinidadian leader, Dr. Eric
Williams, Jame left the
country to reside in EogIaod
and tour internationally a
lecturer. He travelled to
Detroit in 1967, 1969, 1m
and 1976, where he ectured at
Wayne Slate University.
anyof . writings duro
the 1950 and 1960 were
published by "Facing RealitY'
pr . located at the time on
Detroit' ea t side. M ny
younger radicals of the 19605
d 19705 100 ed to James for
po guidaD�.
An of .
pu61icbed by ·Radieal
America·· . their July-
A 1970· ue. In 1969,
--··S CCmembenbued
i &alliDgton, D.C.
repub . II· 1938 classic,
·A Histoty of an-African
Revolt" (reDamed). In the
early 197Os, J became a
proponent of the CODYeDing of
a Sixth Pan-AfriQll Congress.
Although the Sixth Pan­
African Congress did occur in
1974 in Dar Es Salaam, Tan-'
zaaia, . represented a far cry
&om t J and his up­
porters in the African rid
had vis· With govern­
ment sponsorship, the COD­
gres eventually ban ed aU
non-go-verntDentaJ organiza-
. based in oste Iy inde-
pendent countri in Africa
and the Car bean. Couse-
-�
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