Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. “Not One Was Willing To Go!”: The Paradoxes of “Liberia’s Offerings” 14
6. 2. “His Failure Will Be Theirs”: Why the Black Elite Resisted Garveyism and Embraced Ethiopia 43
7. 3. Protecting “Fertile Fields”: The NAACP and Africa during the Cold War 72
8. 4. “The Time for Freedom Has Come”: Black Leadership in the Age of Decolonization 99
9. 5. “We Are a Power Bloc”: The Congressional Black Caucus and Africa 125
10. Conclusion 149
11. Notes 157
12. Index 195