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Lightfoot, Claude M., (1910–1991). Black America and The World Revolution

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09643.17 Author/Creator: Lightfoot, Claude M., (1910–1991). Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 1970 Pagination: 1 v. : 95 p. ; 21.5 x 14 cm. Order a Copy

This pamphlet is the publication of five speeches given from 1966-1970 by Lightfoot. These speeches are; "The American Peace Movement: A Vital Force for World Peace," delivered at a conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International; held in Prague 1966. "The Civil War and Black Liberation Today," delivered to a group of black graduate students at Harvard 1968. "The International Significance of Black Liberation in the United States Lecture" presented at Karl Marx University Leipzig Germany 1969. "Black Liberation in a Socialist, Asian and African Perspective" delivered at Fisk University 1969, a Moratorium Day rally to end the Vietnam War. "Lenin Illuminates the Path to Black Liberation," a paper presented at a symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth in New York, 1970. These five speeches were compiled in an effort to "show the links binding the Black revolutionaries in the United States to the world-wide revolutionary process"

Lightfoot, Claude M., 1910–1991
1945 to the Present
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam War
Vietnam
The Civil Rights Movement

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