Barbara Barnes
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Barbara Barnes
North Americans in Support of Angola
The Angola Support Conference ran from May 28 - 30, 1976 in Chicago. The event was sponsored by the U.S. Out of Angola Committee and the National Conference of Black Lawyers.
At the conference, Barbara Barnes of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola) was selected to go on the National Steering Committee.[1]
The Angola Support Conference came into existence to organize a conference to support the MPLA held in Chicago, May 28-30, 1976. The Conference supported the MPLA and opposed U.S. and South African intervention in Angola. The sponsors were organizations supporting the MPLA from around the country. After the Chicago conference, the organization continued its activities with Prexy Nesbitt serving as national coordinator. Sponsors were;
- Barbara Barnes, MPLA Solidarity Committee
- Marjorie M. Boehm, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- James E. Bristol, American Friends Service Committee
- Robert S. Browne, Black Economic Research Center
- Robert Chrisman; Black Scholar
- Johnnetta B. Cole; National Committee of the Venceremos Brigade
- Henry Foner, Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcherworkmen of North America;
- Larry Holmes; Youth Against War and Fascism
- George M. Houser, American Committee on Africa
- A. Lee Johnson, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Brenda J. Jones, Freedomways Magazine
- Edgar Lockwood, Washington Office on Africa;
- Willis Logan, Africa Office, National Council of Churches
- Anthony Monteiro, National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation
- Patricia Murray, National Council of Black Lawyers
- Prexy Nesbitt, US Out of Angola Committee and Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea
- Moses Newsom, Afro-American Newspapers
- Lance Pustin, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
- Anthony H. Rodrigues, CSAS-General Brotherhood of Workers
- Michael Simmons, Third World Coalition/Southwest Workers Federation
- Jose E. Velazquez, Partide Socialista Pertorriquena
- Joe Walker, Bilalian News. .[2]
References
- ↑ Letter to all persons who attended the Angola Support Conference, July 8, 1976
- ↑ http://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization.php?name=Angola+Support+Conference Angola Support Conference Wisconsin State Historical Society]
