American Society of African Culture organization
also: AMSAC, SAC, Society African Culture
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Council on Race and Caste in World Affairs funded
American Society of African Culture book_quoted
“out of their New York City office. So hopefully y'all are following that. The American Society of African Culture was formally launched in June of 1957. It began operations that November. And initially, AMSAC was entirely financially depend…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1 @ 58:30
American Society of African Culture funded
James Farmer book_quoted
“making a series of statements that were highly critical of U.S. and their race relations and foreign policy. So they had to go clean up his mess. In 1965, AMSAC funded a five-week African tour of a civil rights leader, i.e. an approved CIA …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1 @ 1:05:58
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The CIA's Paris-based front group called Cultural Cold War. The story that was exposed showed recipients of secret U.S. government grants in 1967, and it started with an organization called the American Society of African Culture. A group o…
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with African communities, and on the African continent. This AMSAC is called American Society of African Culture, AMSAC. AMSAC's origins was a program and a CIA front. The U.S. government's attempt to turn transnational citizen networks int…
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or a strategy of tension. The CIA's effort to capture this transnational African network for the Cold War purposes had many of the foremost Black intellectuals and artists of the day participating in it. The activities of AMSAC African Amer…
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how light-colored skin the Africans, Americans from America were, and basically was using that as another reason saying that they were basically not of them. Despite these divisions, the Congress succeeded in creating a permanent internatio…
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The natural tension persisted, and in January 1957, a guy by the name of Diop, D-I-O-P, his first name is A-L-I-O-U-N-E, wrote John Davis informing him that the international members were being sought for the SAC Executive Council.…
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should we say, the CIA. So he recommended Duke Ellington, the musician, and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, which really doesn't say anything good about either one of them, actually. Back down and peaceful relations were res…
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out of their New York City office. So hopefully y'all are following that. The American Society of African Culture was formally launched in June of 1957. It began operations that November. And initially, AMSAC was entirely financially depend…
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partly on domestic issues, which again, they're not allowed to do, but they do anyway through these front organizations. And they were basically producing propaganda, pamphlets, reports, all kinds of stuff like that. And basically, starting…
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There was a 1959 winter conference called The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots, which had Langston Hughes, who is a poet, and there were also regional and regular lectures given at AMSEC's Manhattan office. The Society produce…
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but written in English. One of the special editions was called Africa Seen by American Negroes. That's the name of the article. Finally, AMSAC provided various cultural services to Africans visiting the U.S., including an information bureau…
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That's basically how this whole thing operates. And that's the reason why they spend their money to do that. These information bureaus are used basically to spy on the people. And then the English language education for the UN is the same w…
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whatever, who you can corrupt. Among the American artists performing at the event, before an audience of 5,000 people in King George's Stadium, were U.S. jazz musicians Lionel Hampton and Nina Simone. Shortly after the festival closed, AMSA…
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Harvard University's Martin Kilson told Davis in April 1962, African students at Harvard did not like AMSAC's assertive features. In other words, they were on to AMSAC. They were exerting a huge amount of pressure onto the students coming o…
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to participate in CIA activities. Despite the misgivings about the imbalance between AMSAC's domestic and foreign programs, they sent eminent African Americans to Africa, especially after the black nationalist leader Malcolm X visited the c…
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making a series of statements that were highly critical of U.S. and their race relations and foreign policy. So they had to go clean up his mess. In 1965, AMSAC funded a five-week African tour of a civil rights leader, i.e. an approved CIA …
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After the tour concluded, AMSAC's leadership declared they were extremely well satisfied with his success. And they had already began discussing of funding another trip. And their guest speaker for that next trip was going to be Martin Luth…
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However, there was a memorandum written by Boston University sociologist Adelaide Cromwell Hill to other members of AMSAC's executive council just after the New York Times expose in February 1967. This is a quote. First of all, the possibil…