Primary Sources

Exercise 1: Race and the Cold War

• “Crushing Soviet Lies,”
  editorial, Pittsburgh Courier, April 29, 1950, p. 14.
• Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae,
  Brown v. Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1952) (no. 8).
• The Emergence of Africa: Report to President Eisenhower,
  Richard Nixon, State Department Bulletin, April 22, 1957, p. 635–38.
• “Moving Forward,”
  editorial, Chicago Defender, April 29, 1950, p. 6.

Exercise 2: The United States and Colonialism in Africa

• Africa’s Role in the Free World Today,
  George C. McGhee, State Department Bulletin, July 16, 1951, 97–101
• Statement of U.S. Policy toward Africa South of the Sahara prior to Calendar Year 1960,
  NSC 5818, Aug. 26, 1958, Foreign Relations of the United States 1958–1960, XIV, pp. 24–37.
• Memorandum of Discussion at the 432nd Meeting of the National Security Council,
  Jan. 14, 1960, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, XIV, pp. 73–77
• Memorandum of Discussion at the 441st Meeting of the National Security Council
  April 14, 1960, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, XIV, pp. 126–28
• Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: Prospects of Mankind,
  March 6, 1960. Courtesy Henry Morgenthau III Papers, Box 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York

Exercise 3: African Americans and Africa

• Letter from Jackie Robinson to Vice President Richard Nixon,
  May 18, 1960, box 3, Jackie Robinson Papers (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC). Courtesy Rachel Robinson.
• Alex. M. Rivera, “Courier Sees Birth of Ghana,”
  Pittsburgh Courier, March 9, 1957. p 1.
• Letter from Martin Luther King Jr. letter to Tom Mboya,
  July 8, 1959, King Encyclopedia, http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/mboya_thomas_joseph.html.
• Nixon in Ghana.
  Courtesy National Archives, photo no. 306-RNT-12-16.
• Kennedy meets Mboya.
  Photograph by Boston Herald American in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
• African students arrive in New York.
  Photo by Daniel Nilva for the African-American Students Foundation. Courtesy Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Jackie Robinson Papers.
• Kenyans and Americans wait to greet students.
  Photo by Daniel Nilva for the African-American Students Foundation. Courtesy Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Jackie Robinson Papers.
• Jackie Robinson greets students.
  Photo by Daniel Nilva for the African-American Students Foundation. Courtesy Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Jackie Robinson Papers.

Exercise 4: Hearts, Minds, and Student Exchanges

• John F. Kennedy’s “Peace Corps” Speech,
  Audio and transcript of Kennedy’s “Peace Corps” speech, October 14, 1960, at the University of Michigan. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Peace+Corps.htm.
• Recent Actions on African Students,
  Memo for McGeorge Bundy from Philip Coombs, Aug. 4, 1961, box 2, National Security File, Presidential Papers of John F. Kennedy (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass.).

Exercise 5: Politics of Race

• James T. Callender, “The President, Again,”
  Richmond Recorder, 1803. From Early American Newspapers, an Archive of Americana Collection, published by Readex (Readex.com), a division of NewsBank Inc.
• Willie Horton Advertisement,
  1988. Museum of the Moving Image, The Living Room Candidate, http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1988.
• Obama Bucks,
  Tim Kastelein, Please Go No, http://www.pleasegodno.com.
• “Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union,’”
  Barackobama.com, http://www.barackobama.com/2008/03/18/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_53.php.
• “York Voters Untangle Rhetoric on Race,”
  NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96054456.