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Africa

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Africa: The Emerging Patterns Symposium

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000207
Scope and Contents

Contains material re arrangements for Africa symposium held in the Hall of Nations, March 24, 1959. Symposium was sponsored by The International Relations Enquiry of Georgetown University and Editors of Holiday. Much of the correspondence present is with Graduate School Dean John M. Daley, S.J.

Dates: 1959

Eritrean and Ethiopian Expatriate Activism Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20251029
Scope and Contents

Collection of handbills, newsletters, statements and one poster related to 1970s Eritrean and Ethiopian activism in the United States, especially Washington, DC.

Dates: 1974 - 1980

Jimmy Moxon Collection of Louis Armstrong Materials

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-151208
Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscript material, printed ephemera and memorabilia, photographs, and phonographic records related to jazz artist Louis Armstrong and compiled by Jimmy Moxon, a colonial officer and Ghanaian civil servant who organized Armstrong's two-day visit to perform at Accra, Ghana, in May 1956. Of particular note are Moxon's original unpublished manuscript account of the visit, personal mementos, signed invitations and photographs, press notices, programs, and large broadsides...
Dates: 1947 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1956

"They Answered the Call" Pamphlet

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 53, Folder: 12
Identifier: GTM-0114
Scope and Contents

Pamphlet published by the Johannesburg South African Board of Deputies. Original decorative wrappers, 18cm, 12 pp, 2nd edition, February 1944. This is a pamphlet describing the contribution of Jewish South African soldiers in World War II. It is illustrated and gives the numbers of those who died in action, those who were injured and the number of Jewish soldiers who were decorated. [Description provided by Fishburn Books]

Dates: 1944