COPYRIGHT IMAGE LINK, CHARLES MALIK, LEBANON, ATTENDEE
COPYRIGHT IMAGE LINK - SAUDI ARABIA DELEGATION.
COPYRIGHT IMAGE LINK, MUFTI OF JERUSALEM, BANDUNG CONFERENCE 1955 ATTENDEE.
...At the time of the first Bandung Conference, the North American left, in general, and the African American liberation movement, in particular, were under attack. Senator Joseph McCarthy was looking for a "red under every bed.” Robeson, "the Tallest Tree in Our Forest," wanted to attend the Conference but couldn't because the U.S. government had taken his passport. Ditto for DuBois. However, several African American politicians and journalists found themselves in Indonesia from April 18-25, 1955. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Carl T. Rowan, Dr. Marguerite Cartwright, journalist Payne and Richard Wright all were there.
Quite a lineup. PLEASE NOTE: RICHARD WRIGHT. THE CHICAGO ASSOCIATE OF NONE OTHER THAN FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.
The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference, was to that date the largest gathering of Asian and African nations. On April 18 to 24, 1955, twenty-nine representatives of nations from Africa and Asia came together in Bandung, Indonesia, to promote African and Asian economic coalitions and decolonization. The Conference expressly declared its opposition to both colonialism and neocolonialism not only by the European powers then in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, but also by the United States and the Soviet Union.
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