“I attended the African Liberation Day in Washington, D.C., to represent our organizing efforts in St. Paul. The morning was sunny and pulsating with excitement. Local master drummers filled the air with calls for people to gather for the demonstration in Malcolm X Park.”
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“When people began streaming into the park early, seasoned organizers knew that the march was going to be flowing with the expected crowd of more than 10,000. Various organizers and African American reporters estimated the crowd to number anywhere from 30,000-40,000...”
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“On the way to Lumumba Square (National Mall), the marchers demonstrated at the Portuguese, Rhodesian (Zimbabwean), and South African embassies calling for the elimination of settler-colonialism and the end of U.S. foreign policy support for colonialism and apartheid.”
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“Rallies also took place in San Francisco, Calif., and Toronto, Canada, as well as in the Caribbean nations of Dominica, Antigua, and Grenada, with exhilarating participation from labor, political parties, and ordinary people in solidarity with the cause of African liberation.”
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An excerpt from “Washington’s First African Liberation Day Celebration” (1972) By Sylvia Hill https://www.blackpowerchronicles.org/cool_timeline/afrikan-liberation-day-1967/ …pic.twitter.com/LRX2Hk6WcE
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