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Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 7:47pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]while resenting the indiscriminate grouping also, have accepted both

"Negro" and "Colored" as proper names (and "Black" tentatively for

strategic leadership reasonsl have sought a breakthrough by spearheading

drives for integraticn, forced busing for "racial balance," and

scatter-site housing in white suburbia . Most important, during the past

twenty years, increased trave . enabled them to learn with certainty that

Mulattoes are indeed conside ed "white," throughout the Muslim Middle

East and Muslim North Afri(a-Egypt, Algeria, Tunis, Morocco, Syria,

Jordan, Iraq and the Holy Laid of Islam, Saudi Arabia .

Now anyone who is even noderately acquainted with the history of

the Arab slave trade for the )ast two thousand years would know that,

as a result, there are not only millions of Mulattoes throughout the Arab

states, but countless thousands of jet-black Africans whose ancestors

were also born there . All peak Arabic, are Muslims, and consider

themselves Arabs for exactly the same reasons as emphasized before,

that Blacks born in the United States consider themselves Americans .

One can very readily understand why those Negroes who wish to escape

Black or African identity are pushing for an identity of color with their

kind in those countries when they are "white" and, therefore, in a class

distinctly superior to the still mslaved or subordinated Blacks still living

there . And they have every right, natural or otherwise, to follow their

own inclinations .

Indeed, the race would experience the joyful relief that comes with a

new birth of freedom if the particular group would stop trying to

operate in both the white and black worlds, stop straddling the fence

and get down decisively on de side of its choice . They will never do this,

of course, because they enjoy the same double advantage of a most

famous ancestor, Leo Africanus, who, when pressed in Rome to say

whether he considered himsdf African or white, replied that he shifted

to whatever side it was expedent to be on from time to time . "When the

African's are on top, I am an African," he said . This class of mixed

bloods will always be an emlarrassing threat-to the other millions who,

although also of mixed blow, are wholly African in spirit and pride .

These latter are the Adam Chyton Powells of the race who are not only

above suspicion, but are regarded by the black masses as inseparably

their own .

That a "little learning is a dangerous thing" is also indicated among

the relatively few who preach about the Jews being a "black people,"

Joseph and Mary being "Black" and Jesus Christ also "Black," etc . A[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 7:49pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]group of American Negroes recently went to Israel, claiming that they

were the "original" Jews, the "Lost Tribe of Israel," and that, therefore,

the country belonged to them . Movements of this kind would not

deserve even a sentence here if they were not indicative of the frustrations

and confusion, and the frantic pulling in different directions which

further bind the race in chains difficult to break . They are mental chains

as well as blinders .

Now the-confusion about "Black Jews" derives from the same historic

developments which have been explained about white and black

Arabs, exactly the same . For we have shown that Jews were in Africa

from the earliest times and that Africans were in Palestine from the

earliest times . And just as the Jews ruled in African Egypt for several

centuries, so also the Africans ruled over Palestine for several centuries .

But, unlike the Arabs, the Jews never engaged in the general enslavement

of Blacks . In cases of warfare either side might capture segments of the

population to be marched off to work in the victorious nation, a notable

instance being the Jewish captivity in Egypt and their later emancipation

and return under the leadership of Moses . Not only did many coloured

Jews cross the Red Sea with Moses, but doubtless many converted jetblack

Jews, such as the wife of the Lawgiver himself . Furthermore, as in

the case of the Arabs, we often confuse race with religion . The people

we call "Jews" indiscriminately are Hebrews by race and Jews by

religion . Anyone can be a Jew, but not a Hebrew . The Hebrews and the

Arabs are both white Semitic peoples, and no number of offsprings by

non-Hebrews and non-Arabs, or adherents to either religion, will ever

change this absolute fact . After all those centuries of racial mixing,

there was nothing unusual about the appearance of great coloured

leaders in Palestine or anywhere else in Asia, including, from time to

time, their rise to kingship in Israel, Syria (Aram), Mesopotamia, etc .

But the white Jews (Hebrews) and white Arabs remain exactly what

they always were-white ; and this is why (and who pretends not to

kaow it?) that there is a racial crisis today in Israel between the ruling

white Jews and the coloured Jews who have migrated there from the

above mentioned lands . These are the coloured adherents of Judaism

from Arab countries, but who never became Muslims . It will be going

overboard to drown if we follow fanatics in attempting to "blackize"

everything and everybody that suits their fancy . It is quite useless and

unnecessary to try to make either Jesus Christ or the Prophet Mohammad

"black" or even "coloured ." However, the most important point to be[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 7:51pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]noted in reference to the American Negro group, the "Lost Tribe of

Israel" which landed there only to be rejected, is that it illustrates

dramatically all that has been presented in these pages about those

groups within the African race who are trying hard to escape from it,

seeking their identity with a white people-any white people . And we

have said, "Let them go!" The only thing we object to, and will fight to

the end, is the attempt to program the whole race again on a march

away from itself or allow them to remain as leaders of the same people

from which they wish to flee .

8 . Finally, another major obstacle to unity and progress that is hardly

ever openly discussed must not only be discussed but attacked in a

nationwide program in the home . Obviously, only a massive nationwide

organization can deal successfully with any of our "massive" problems .

This one concerns an inheritance from slavery . It is the attitude of

indifference and disrespect of Blacks toward Blacks . To the average

Black, another Black is not as important as someone, anyone, of another

race . Therefore, black clerks or salespersons will serve whites more

quickly and politely than they will serve members of their own race .

This evil spirit from slavery pervades all "classes," whether lawyers,

carpenters, doctors, painters, nurses, shop owners, school heads, teachers,

repairmen, garbage amd trash men, paperhangers, taxi drivers, movers

and haulers, employees in homes, etal . The only thing you can count on

being first class are the charges-which are often higher than what the

whites pay for the services these same Blacks give at the highest level of

their competence . The exceptions to this general rule are not enough to

affect such a damaging situation . This is why, in proposing specific steps

in organizing a whole people, emphasis is placed on training at the very

outset for all persons involved directly in the work . For the great task of

developing real mutual respect must be undertaken by people who

have it themselves . We are no longer interested in the often hypocritical

rhetoric of "brothers and sisters ." Too often "brothers and sisters" are

mouthed by some with the biggest "Afro-bush" while mugging, raping

or killing these same "brothers and sisters ."

Out of this general attitude, which serves the white supremacy

position so well, develops an indifference to high standards of excellence

in all-black situations, and that strict business methods in the areas of

auditing, accounting, or strict financial procedures in the collection,

deposit and management of other people's money-these safeguards

are thought by many to have no place in the black community . Here we[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 7:52pm On Mar 10, 2012
have a contradictory mental twist among Blacks . For while distrust of

one another is characteristic, when it comes to the thousands of do-good

organizations into which we pour millions of dollars, the idea is that one

should trust the brothers and sisters who collect, hold and control the

people's money . Re-education will be required for the two mandatory

changes in attitude : one toward each other in terms of mutual respect,

and the other, a change in attitude about efficiency, expertise in

business management and financial responsibility and administration .

Unless we begin to develop and expand these first, a great survival

movement will fail just as many other noble efforts failed because the

rush neglected the necessary foundation .


***
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 7:52pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]The Shape of Things
To Come: A Master Plan


IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY STATED IN SUBSTANCE THAT

although the African people may continue their present course of

weakness on into the future with thousands of ununified organizations,

powerless and, therefore forever dependent like half-men and halfwomen

unable to use their own brains, although this tragic situation

may continue into an uncertain future, we say, it can never be said again

that such a hopeless situation persists because no member of the race or

any group has ever studied the principal problems and the obstacles to

their solutions based on history, and then offered an overall plan as one

of the possible lines of march out of the morass. For there have been a

number of plans . The weakness of some is that instead of being

presented as a proposal, a point of beginning for the express purpose of

making such revisions of amendments as the people think best, they are

too often presented authoritatively as fait accompli, a reflection of the

leader's ego, infallible wisdom and power .

In this section are the specifics of a MASTER PLAN. It is to be the

functioning framework of a unifying Race Organization of a kind never

presented to the black race before . To make all of this "crystal clear,"

what is meant by race organization, how it will differ from anything[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 7:56pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]attempted before, and what should be some of its guiding principles

and understandings are enumerated below . For emphasis, a few of the

most important propositions are necessary recapitulations of points

already presented in preceding pages .

The main focus here is on Blacks in the United States because,

whether they know it or not, they we in the very best situation to be the

lead-off example for the whole African world .

I.

"Race Organization" here mean; a nationwide organization of Blacks

only . But it means much more : theorganization should be so structured

through all elements of the black population, and on an active

membership so vast that it would ;o far beyond the accepted scientific

criteria for determining the wishe, of a whole people . In other words,

the first objective would be to have a representative scheme of organization

that would, beyond all doubt, be the voice of Black America ; and to

keep this an actual fact by periodic polls as crucial issues affecting the

race as a group arise . No such organization ever existed among us ;

hence, no real unity exists among us .



Far from being a "separatist" movement, as these terms are generally

understood, the organization woud be cooperative in the fullest and

most humane meaning of that word . For the black masses are not going

to give up their 400 years of investment in America-400 years of

investments in blood and labor to build up its present great wealth-they

are not about to "separate," migrate anywhere, leaving all those centuries

of toil as a free gift to the whites . This means that we shall continue to

battle for equal employment and advancement throughout the United

States and in every area of the nation's life, the expansion of voting and

elections to public office and, in gereral, the exercise without exceptions

of all the rights and duties of other citizens.

This also represents our convicti)n that the black masses will not be

seriously influenced by the pipe dream of a separate, independent

"Nation" or "Republic" within the territorial confines of the United

States . They have too much comrron sense for that, and would reject[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:01pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]such movements in sheer self-defense even if the whites withdrew and

turned over five Southern states for such a purpose .

Negro integrationists would oppose this, of course, but for an obviously

quite different reason . Their drive is to break up existing black

communities and scatter the people among hostile whites .

A great nationwide organizations of Blacks, therefore, would be in :he

only possible position to cooperate and work out common problems

with whites as equals, and this is from a position backed by organized

power, the only position respected at this stage of human development .



It was stated above that we would continue to push for equal employment

and political opportunities on all fronts . The sadly missing link,

however, is that we ourselves have done little to create employment

opportunities . If we say that, as a race, we are too poor to engage in

productive activities that would create thousands of jobs for our young

people, if we continue "traditional" pleas of poverty, our total spending

of nearly 200 billion dollars each year rises up to call us liars! We are
able .

Those who wish to engage in private enterprise for their own personal

benefit will always be free to do so ; and there will always be some pride

in pointing out this or that rich black capitalist . When we consider the

welfare of the whole community, however, we are getting back to a

basic African ideology, which is that of the individual . The Organization

will be a national community made up of the numerous black communities .

In demanding rights it will also assume the race's responsibility for

creating some of the opportunities itself . The, most crucial point to be

considered and remembered is the vast difference between what the

Blacks do as a race, from the viewpoint of world opinion, and what a

black individual does .

IV.

Not "unity just for unity," but unity for great achievements, not one of

which can be realized without it .

The first great understanding should be that the unity we seek cannot

be achieved by organization alone . Even an organization of several

million members will have no lasting basis for existence unless the total[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:02pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]membership is mutually and individually involved in activities which

each feels is important and will be directly beneficial to him all in his

own lifetime . Direct membership by families may turn out to be more

important than one based on a federation of existing organizations .

Actual unity will be achieved, not by preaching, pleading or exhortations,

but almost unconsciously as people work together for mutual benefits to

each other and the advancement of the race as a whole . Meaningful,

practical activities which involve even children in attacking the problems

of their race will be the cement which we call unity.

The second great understanding should be that economic activities

are so fundamental in any truly upward movement, so clearly indispensable

at this stage in history, that it should be unnecessary to state it even . The

still existing slave mentality causes millions of us to shy away from this

basis of life itself because it requires more initiative, training and work,

and less talk than politics . Consequently, the overall picture we present

to the world is that of a race of dependent job seekers, ourselves unable

to engage in the large-scale production of any of the necessities of life,

whether they are the shoes and clothing we wear or the food we eat .

Hence, the billions of dollars we spend each year, just in these categories,

we eagerly give back to the whites to strengthen their power over us

while becoming richer and richer at the same time .

Economic development activities are direct survival activities, the

means of existence-helping to provide the means of existence . It is as

simple as that. The main goals of a great unity movement can never be

reached unless the Organization has its own self-generating financial

resources to protect, defend and promote the interests of the race .

Organizations which must be subsidized by government and foundation

grants to exist are not in an independent position .

The third understanding should be clear that all community enterprises,

contrary to capitalism, will be owned and operated by the people in the

community, that they will be the shareholders, that all the trained

personnel in each store, plant or any other enterprise will be shareholders

(and, therefore, part owners) of such establishments, that all profits will

belong to the people, but full responsibility for the first class service,

efficiency and general business management will be that of elected

managers, and not the general membership .

Finally, the scope and nature of the proposed Divisions in the last

section of this work will doubtless make even clearer the real significance

of a nationwide organization . For, in addition to the work involved in[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:03pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]raising not just the hopes, but the level of life of those lower down,

equally important would be what this massive consolidation of unused

power can do in the following areas :

1. It can influence American foreign policy and actions in regard to

crucial matters affecting African nations just as effectively as American

Jews can influence this country's relations with Israel . And, as another

example, it could have stopped the use of millions of black taxpayers'

dollars to help Portugal suppress the Freedom Fighters in its African

empire . If a deaf ear is turned to such protests, several million Blacks

could pledge to withhold the payment of taxes until all armed assistance

for the war against Africans ceases-something a disunited people are

helpless to do now . This would be real Pan Africanism .

2 . An overall race organization can deal more effectively with some

important problems at home and more effectively than any smaller,

independent group can do nationwide . The higher rents and higher

prices paid for goods and services in "inner cities" than those paid in the

affluent white suburbs-this open yet silent war against the Blacks is

being accepted because we are helplessly disorganized . The studies

have already been made . The facts have been established . What the

people need is a national defender to further expose and attack this and

other fronts of the silent war that are quietly being carried on each day

against a now helpless people, many of whom are not really aware of its
extent.

3 . It can carry on a nationwide education program directly into the

homes, reversing the "poor and deprived homes" negative outlook to a

positive one . Heading the information agenda would be a focus on

those death-dealing diseases which impair both mind and body in the

diseased wombs of mothers . The widest information should be given on

the fact that ignorance or indifference to personal health can result in

children being born mentally and physically retarded, and thus handicapped

for life not by genetic preconditions but by the acts of their parents .

Home studies for the entire family can be promoted, and the Home

Beautiful can become a principal aim in every black community .

4 . It can oversee the welfare of the race by maintaining a check on the

extent Blacks are secretly used exclusively as guinea pigs in dangerous

experiments by various medical projects . Neither the Tuskegee experiments

nor the number of our people who needlessly suffered and died

from them must be passed over as an unusual and isolated incident .

The many years the government and the doctors were able to keep this[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:03pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]particular secret should be a matter of grave concern . It is also important

to know to what extent Negro physicians participate in such experiments .

For, of course, no one should be asked to believe that such experiments

could be carried out on Blacks in such large numbers, and over such a

long period without any black doctors knowing about them .

5. Such a race movement would be superficial indeed if it proceeded

without its principal foundation, which is the ownership of vast tracts of

farm and timber land in various parts of the country . The current ideological

cry of "We must have land!" is valid only if we answer the

question, "for what purpose?" or "to what end?" Our sloganeers rarely,

explain the slogans . But land is for production. And its ownership and

use will become more and more necessary for survival since even now

75 percent of the American population is concentrated on only 2

percent of the land in cities and towns .

Land should be for a more abundant life, carried on in large-scale

production programs such as cattle ranches for beef, hog farms for pork

products, turkey farms, poultry and eggs, vegetables of all kinds, corn,

rice, wheat, etc ., etc .

6. It can have, on behalf of the race it represents, a Central National

Bank, as the people's national depository and central financing . agency ;

a national auditing and accounting service ; a general insurance system

covering especially those categories where Blacks are arbitrarily denied

protection or charged much higher rates than those paid by whites ;

home improvement, building and small loans could all be handled by

community credit unions, organized on a somewhat different basis than

existing credit unions . For one thing, all community credit unions in

various sections of a city would be united as one to reinforce each

other's services when needed .

7. It can give new hope and a new sense of direction to the thousands

behind prison walls and, in time, practically empty the prisons of those

convicted of crimes for which the whites go free . The important thing,

however, is that the youths, men and women coming out of prisons,

would have something to come to: training and retraining for their

much needed service in helping to build and advance themselves as

they build and advance their race . They have never had such an
opportunity .

8. The great change in outlook and the new inspiration that would

come to black children and youth are immeasurable . Just to know that

their parents are engaged in, and actively a part of a great movement[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:04pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]will give a new sense of worth and dignity . No longer will it be necessary

to shout in unison, "I am somebody!" For the children of janitors, trash

haulers, maids and parents in similar occupations will regard them with

pride and in a new light . We are great if we are an active part of a great
movement.

Up to now black children have been badly cheated . They have never

had the inspiring reasons to study and advance which are constantly

before the eyes of white children . And this central fact of difference has

led me to suppose that some Providential favor must have enabled the

black students of the world to do so well in the face of it all .

Finally, and obviously, none of the above can be achieved on a

nation-wide scale without a nation-wide movement of several million

members, organized as a race, working as a race for its interests as fullfledged

American citizens .


HOW TO BEGIN-AND BY WHOM?


In the- section titled "The Liberation of Our Minds," the various

factors which explain the generally dependent disposition of African

people today were outlined in some detail . They reveal the tragic extent

to which a dominant group can shape and control even the thinking of

the suppressed group . This meant that, unlike other peoples, the Blacks

voluntarily remained mentally enslaved even after their physical emancipation

. That Caucasianzation of the Blacks was so well done over so

many centuries that it is doubtful if real liberation of our minds will be

achieved in this generation . Yet the black youth in the 1960s brought

about the greatest reversal of the race's attitude toward itself that had

ever been achieved before . There is, therefore, no grounds for despair

and much ground for faith if we understand that total liberationn will be

slow even with the best efforts and that there will always be those who

have the white viewpoint on race and will never abandon it. These

cannot stop the onward march of the whole people to human equality

and dignity .

But who will begin to lay the first stone in the foundation of the

greatest movement,for racial unity and power ever undertaken? And

how might such -a task begin?

Some of us, who would otherwise be naturally expected to lead off,

have already spent so many years in studying the history of the crisis and[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:05pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]analyzing the problems that we are now near the end of our journey,

and must pass the undertaking to those more able to carry on .

This, like every great movement, will be initiated by just one individual.

No great gathering or crowd starts a movement . Quite the contrary,

when the many assemble it is because someone has already begun . One

person has already thought matters through and resolved that a

beginning must be made. He should not be the usual "leader" whose

fiery denunciations of wrongs against Blacks may be counted on to stir

emotions-and that is all . The one person needed is simply one who is

dedicated with a sense of mission for his race, seeking nothing but the

opportunity to serve it . There are doubtless countless thousands of such

sons and daughters of the race, willing and ready, but either not

knowing what to do or afraid of their own capabilities, and "leaving it to

somebody else ."

Yet all one person has to do is to ask five or six other people to study

THE PLAN, and then meet later to discuss it, just five or six persons, not

one of whom need to be a "big name ."

This small initial group of six could have each member become a

committee of one, each to nominate three other people to study The

Plan before the next meeting, at which time the 18 members could

become the nucleus for a general organizing committee . Further nominations

to the Organizing Committee should be representative of all

groups, students, laborers, clerks, etc ., as well as professionals. The

representatives on the Organizing Committee may be from national

organizations (all Black), or smaller organizations, lodges, clubs, etc .

This core committee, after a series of meetings during which The

Master Plan has been studied in detail and revisions or amendments

have been proposed for future action, could then proceed to develop

and carry out plans for the formation of a national organizing committee

composed of representatives from various sections of the country . (Note

that even at the outset of organizing, some funds will be required if

effective work is to be done .)

The work of the National Organizing Committee would be crucial : It

would have to :

1 . Summarize the main features of The Plan and outline them in the

simplest terms for publication, distribution and broadcasts to the black
world .

2 . Determine ways and means of funding the organizing procedures .[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:06pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]3. Determine the best general membership enrollment procedures,

such as moving state by state, setting a one-year membership goal for

each state, instead of attempting to organize throughout the nation all at
once .

4. Divide each state into districts, each with an organizing committee

with a chairman ; the same divisional scheme for towns and cities, each

section having a committee and chairman .

5. Draw heavily on young people, who really started the movement

and who should, therefore, be a most powerful force in carrying it on .

6 . Conduct in advance a nationwide poll to determine (a) how many

black people in America desire the proposed overall organization of the

race and (b) how many agree to participate in its activity .

7. Clarify the scheme of organization to emphasize the individuality of

membership, i.e ., an association or union, etc ., may join as such, but its

main role would be setting the example for its members who may or

may not wish to join ; the organization would have its own membership

card, and each of its members who joined would have his or her own

membership card. In the case of organization by families-the most

significant innovation-each family would have a family membership

card, and each member of the family from age 5 on would have his or

her own membership card .

8. Set the national membership goals as 2-year plans, 3-year plans, 5-

year plans, etc ., but always in terms of millions .

9. Determine time and place for the first general assembly for the

formal ratification and launching of action-program .

10 . Have an Information and Publicity Committee maintain various

media to keep constantly before the people the plans, purposes or goals

of the movement, who is doing what, and the progress being made .

11 . Propose annual awards to individuals and groups that have been

outstanding in their work for racial unity through organized action . (See

NOTE.)

Everything in this final chapter, then, is a guideline for thinking and

rethinking about how to deal with the situation in which we live . The

Plan itself is a proposal . Revisions and Amendments will be proposals,

all tentative until approved by the people .

The functioning organization would be under the overall administration

of a National Council of Leaders, headed by a National Chairman

(following traditional patterns of African Council of Elders) . Every state,

city or community division, would also be organized under councils of

leaders .[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:09pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]The organizational structure of the Movement should be by major

divisions for the major activities, each divided into departments for

carrying on their respective programs . Special study and analysis should

be given to each Division and each department coming under it, for

there could be no better way to understand the scope and significance

of what is presented here . This should be easy for all, because I have not

been dealing with idealistic, unattainable dreams or mere academic

theories, but very practical, day-to-day problems . In so doing, I have

deliberately avoided the academic and often esoteric language of scholarship.


STRUCTURE BY DIVISIONS

                                   I.

THE DIVISION OF ECONOMIC
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT


The Division of Economic Planning and Development should be the

foundation of the organized efforts and a principal source of support

and promotion of the most important activities of the whole race . A

guiding principle should be that all promoted community enterprises

shall be cooperatively owned and controlled by the people of the

community and that each enterprise be under highly trained management

and competent service personnel .

DEPARTMENTS:

A. Department for Promotion of Community Cooperative enterprises.

(1) To conduct surveys to determine what the people want and need .

(2) Soundness of project .

(3) Ways and means of community financing and securing trained

personnel and management .

The community enterprises would be nationwide and, while

owned and operated by the people in the various towns and

cities, would operate as a nationwide chain of stores and markets

for mass buying power and distribution . This would be the

system whether the enterprises are food markets, shoe stores,

department stores or any other undertaking which can be

developed as a chain store system .[/b]
Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(m): 8:10pm On Mar 10, 2012
[b]B . The Department of Finance, Banking, and Credit Unions .

(1) For promoting a consortium of banks operated by members of the

race and the expansion of financing and banking systems . These

would be branches of a Central National Bank of the organization .

(2) Credit Unions for individual assistance and building and loan

services . Primarily for communities without needed building and

loans services for Blacks .

C. The Institute of Technology and Personnel Training . This would be

a Key program of the movement . For while it would engage in the

training of expert technicians for the various fields of operation

under the PLAN, a principal objective would be the kind of creative

expertise required for large scale manufacturing operations-shoe

manufacturing; men, women and children's clothes, hats, underwear,

canning ; frozen foods, furniture ; mattress-making, and other

products .

The personnel training sections would have an importance for the

race beyond the ordinary . Blacks are generally still quicker and more

polite . when serving white people . Their attitude toward members of

their own race is one of indifference and often insulting . This is

known to be true both in Africa and America . Yet this crucial question

is not mentioned even in discussion of why "Negro" business

fails . This negative and essentially anti-black attitude of Blacks

towards Blacks, a left-over from slavery and our history, must be

uncompromisingly and even ruthlessly dealt with in both training

and day-to-day administration .

D. Central Office of Accounting and Finance Control

Here again is an area in which Blacks are weak : money management

and control . This Central Office of Accounting and Finance Control

would keep a rigorous check on all income and expenditures of the

National organization and provide similar auditing and accounting

units for the local community organizations and enterprises .

E. Department of Land Reclamation and Farming .

Principal Aim : To secure large tracts of land in various parts of the

country to (1) raise vegetables of all kinds for the various community

markets, (2) hogs, beef cattle, poultry and eggs, (3) farm homes for

persons who would work on the farm and (4) country camp centers

for rest and play .[/b]
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[b]Special Note : Without the farm lands we may as well forget about

canning and frozen food industries or reducing the cost of living for

our people by supplying their community stores with fresh vegetables,

meats, butter and eggs from their own farms . Vast land holding is the

cornerstone of the Master Plan .

F. Transport and Distribution Agency .

This department would be primarily concerned with long distance

shipping from farms, plants and other points, and maintaining the

trucks, shipping vans and required maintenance services .

G. Central Purchasing and Supply Agency .

In addition to its obvious functions this department would be

responsible for the proper location and supervision of the various

warehouses required as the community enterprises expand .

[All of the departments and agencies listed above would be in the

Division of Economic Planning and Development] .

11.

DIVISION OF POLITICAL ACTION

(1) Promote and assist voter registration ; (2) provide "profile" of candidates-

local, state and national ; (3) prepare bills and other measures

affecting the group for state legislatures and the U .S. Congress ; (4) liaison

with White House; and (5) all actions that can be taken through the

political process to protect and promote the welfare of Black Americans .


DIVISION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION

Purpose: To achieve a higher standard of teaching and student achievement

on every level involved in the education of Black children and

youth ; and to develop a better system of general adult education in all

Black communities . This Division would include :

A. Foundation for directed research, field studies and the training of

scholars for neglected areas in various aspects of African life and
history .

B. A General Publishing Board : (1) Textbooks and other works related

to progress of the race ; (2) newspapers and magazines, a professional

journal, community-action newsletters, etc .[/b]
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[b]C . Committee of Visitors .

These should be in every community to (1) become acquainted with

teachers, students and the textbooks and other learning materials ;

(2) to determine to what extent, if any, the anti-African or anti-black

feeling on the part of many teachers of black youth may be a hidden

obstacle to their progress in school work .

Every Committee of School Visitors should be elected by the

people of the community and should report directly to them . But

"education" here means far more than "school" education . It means

spreading light through a comprehensive program into the deprived

areas of the community : New standards for better health ; better

homes and gardens ; neighborhood improvement activities ; and sponsoring

neighborhood conferences on questions of mutual community

and educational interest.

A Division of Education would justify its existence if it did nothing

more than conduct studies as a basis for proposing certain guidelines

for the race in the United States . The general confusion and mess-up

in the Black Studies Movement, for example, could have been

avoided if the young people had had somewhere to turn for help in

determining procedures and priorities . What united guiding voice

was there to advise them that all fields could not possibly or sensibly

be started at once ; that there were neither a fraction of the trained

teachers required nor suitable books or other needed teaching and

learning materials? Only three or four courses could have been

profitably started while research and training prepared the way for a

real educational experience in others to be started later . Even then,

common sense would have dictated that Black Studies can only be

carried on in certain schools by certain teachers . To force them into

white schools only because they are "integrating" and find it an

expedient policy for the moment is one of those black illusions of

achievement that still lead us astray . Equally ridiculous is the

assumption that unwilling and uncommitted white and Negro

teachers are going to now deal fairly with the very aspects of civilization

which they have systematically excluded from instruction all along . If

this were not the case, of course, there would be no such phenomenon

today as "Black Studies ."[/b]
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[b] IV.

DIVISION OF COMMUNITY SERVICES

A. Department of Health and Sanitation

1. Council of Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, Medical Aides and laymen

and Home Visiting Nurse Service .

2. Community Clinics .

3 . Community clean block and alley program .

4. Better Home life Counseling Service .

5 . A "Home-Beautiful" Program

B. Legal Aid Services : All matters of injustice because of race, and the

legal work of the Movement .

V.

DIVISION OF YOUTH ACTIVITIES

To assume leadership roles in all areas and undertakings for which they

are capable . Students and non-students should join hands in the racebuilding

efforts . One of their precious responsibilities should be the

Department of Children Affairs (ages 5 to 12) which is in their division .

(The underlying idea here is to have specific and important roles for all

children and youth) .

VI.

DIVISION OF PAN AFRICAN AFFAIRS

This Division would maintain direct contacts and the closest relationship

with the people and states of Black Africa, the Caribbean and the other

black population centers around the world . The purposes would be

specific : (1) To keep them fully informed on what we are doing-and

how; (2) to learn from them what they are doing and how ; (3) to find

out what the obstacles are in each black area, including our own, and to

counsel together on ways and means of overcoming the seemingly

impossible ; (4) to explore for, and then actually determine definite ways

for mutual assistance . When this is done, we will have moved from the

case of Pan-African talk to the work of Pan-Africa in action ; (5) to trade

in the exchange of goods and services, scientific and technical knowledge[/b]
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[b] VII.

DIVISION OF INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY

This Division would maintain highly trained intelligence agents to

(1) check internal subversion and activities of agents placed within the

organization by others, (2) secure complete records of all persons

employed by or connected with the organization, (3) promote formation

and training of self-protection units everywhere to defend the community

against unlawful and unjust raids and other forms of murderous attacks

should they occur . This simply means preparedness for defense against

attacks by well known and well organized "Citizen's" paramilitary
groups .

VIII .

THE COMMISSION FOR SPIRITUAL
LIFE AND ASSISTANCE

This should be the race's "Great Commission ." Its major tasks would be

(1) to determine the direction of civilization ; (2) to interpret the "spiritual"

as men and women working on the highest level of humane endeavors

to understand the meaning of life while trying to improve it ; (3) to enlist

the cooperation of white, brown, yellow, red and any and all other

peoples of goodwill in an all-out drive for a better world ; (4) to maintain

an emergency assistance program for families or communities in distress ;

(5) and to assume the initiative in seeking the active cooperation of any

and all religious faiths and all institutions which are concerned with

improving human relations and, therefore, life itself.

IX.

IDEOLOGY AND GUIDELINES

With the development of a movement of this magnitude, the black

people may begin to learn at last how utterly futile it is to grasp as their

own the ideologies developed by the white world for the people of this

white world . They, the black "leaders" of a still leaderless yet hopeful

people have been, and still are, expecting the solution of the race's

problems to be handed to them on the silver platters of either capitalism

or communism . Elements of both of these systems prevailed in Africa

several thousand years before either capitalism or Marxism was born in

the West . Black people generally could not be expected to know this[/b]
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[b]because, unlike other peoples, they have been completely cut off from

their past history and, therefore, are ignorant of their own philosophy of

life, ancient religion, institutions which were borrowed by others . What

the need now, therefore, is neither "Black Capitalism" nor "Black

Communism"-both of which benefit those at the top and exploit the

masses-but what is needed is an ideology of "Black Africanism,"

operating within the framework of the traditional African Philosophy of

life and the best of its value system .

X .

GUIDELINES'

A. The Movement will seek to achieve the largest possible measure of

Unity in order (1) to form the power base as the organized voice of

the black people in a particular region or nation ; (2) to develop from

this "position of strength" the much needed economic enterprises

that will not only create employment opportunities but, being owned

directly by the people in the community, will lower the cost and raise

the standard of living for all .

B. Financing

There would be a general membership fee . Each community

enterprise would be financed initially by the purchase of shares of

participating owners . Each share would be at a purchase price in

reach of the poorest . Indeed, a special program for share-holding by

children should be an important part of the movement. Each share

draws a fixed interest as a loan . But, unlike capitalism, members do

not vote by shares . The member who may be able to buy 100 shares

has only one vote like the member who could buy only one share .

The objective is a mass membership and a mass patronage of their

own enterprises . The additional direct benefits are the patronage

dividends received according to the amount purchased in a given

period. In private enterprise or "black capitalism" this would be

profit that the owner makes . Under communism, it goes to the

"state." Under our Community Cooperative System, the "profit"

belongs to the people; for the reason for it all is to benefit the people

and not to enrich any one person or small group .
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Notes


1. For a "refresher" read Chapter VI again : The African Constitution :

Birth of Democracy .[/b]
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[b]C. Administration .

The organization will be based upon the traditional African

Constitutional System .

(1) There will be no authoritarian presidents or heads . As in

traditional Africa, the king or chief was the spokesman of the

previously expressed will of the people and the instrument for

carrying out that will ; the national head or heads of the organization

and the head of every unit thereof will function in like manner :

issuing no important orders or public statements on behalf of the

organization or the race it will represent without consent of the

Council.

(2) The Organization will modernize the ancient African Council

of Elders only to the extent of changing "Elders" to "Leaders" in

order to admit outstanding young people to membership . The

Council of Leaders, therefore, becomes the highest governing authority

on each level-local community, state and national-each leader

being the elected representative of a constituency to which he is

responsible for his actions on the Council . This means that on all

highly important matters the leader on the Council does not vote

independently according to his individual judgment, but must determine

in advance the collective will of the people .

(3) The "highest" officer on each level is the Chairman of the

Council . (In traditional Africa this would be the King or Chief, who

could neither vote nor actively participate in the discussions, since his

principal duty was to proclaim and execute the will of the people as it

had been determined by their representatives on the Council .)

Within this people-controlled framework he is still the chief executive

officer .

(4) To enable the people of the community to have an intelligent

or informed opinion about matters of importance, the principal role

of leaders is to study and to institute studies upon the basis of which

plans are developed and proposals are submitted to the general

membership . The leaders propose . They do not order or direct upon

their own authority. A direct medium of communication with the

people should be the "Community Newsletter ."

(5) All officers, even though elected for a specified term of years,

should be subject to removal for cause at any time by the people

(another African constitutional provision) .[/b]
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[b](6) The organization itself will be one vast union, and no outside

organization or union will be allowed to determine its policies,

programs or destiny, no matter under what guise or by what approach

the efforts are made .

(7) There should be a rigid policy to avoid the development of a

top-heavy bureaucracy of high salaried executives . The success of the

Movement is going to depend very heavily on the number of people

willing to sacrifice in giving some unpaid or not fully paid service . For

at least 'the first ten years this will be a sacrifice train . The big salary

boys should not get on board .

(8 The highest legislative body will be a House of Delegates,

representing the various major areas or states according to membership .

The House of Delegates would meet every five years, but subject to

special session call by the Chairman of the Council or Leaders, acting

under Council's instructions ; or it could be called by the people by a

referendum . (This latter emergency would never occur unless the

people lost control of their leaders on the Council) .

D . Every undertaking is to be preceded by study, training and careful

financial planning . There should be long-range and short-range

goals. Some goals can be achieved in a relatively short time ;; some of

a larger magnitude will require several years even after the first five

million membership goal is reached ; and still others can, like the

eternal pyramids, only have their foundations so solidly laid by this

generation that the Blacks who follow us can continue building on

those well laid foundations at the point where our own labors were

ended by time .

And something along this line must be the PLAN . This must be

the vision . It is obviously not for the "Overnight" "quick-up and

quick-down" boys. This is for black men, women and their children

who seek to find the lost path of their forefathers and start the

upward march once again .[/b]
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[b]The final great issue, then, involves the African race alone . The

dismal "View from the Bridge" was reached after a long journey

through the centuries . The outlook is distressing because somewhere

back down the line of time the effort to advance toward a higher order

of life, in something called Civilization, by ever widening the gap that

separates men from beasts-this effort failed . And it failed because in

his sudden and amazing successes in science and technology man

outsmarted himself, concentrating almost entirely on his mind power at

the expense of his humanizing spiritual power, becoming not the master

of his machines but their servant ; and, in the process of acquiring

seemingly limitless power, this segment of the human race became as

soulless as its machines and began to destroy or conquer other peoples,

seizing their lands and their wealth while reducing them as nearly as

possible to a state of perpetual dependency . In all this the black people

of the world still find themselves in the worst situation of all . The

question of today, now, is what are the black people themselves going to

do?

Those who make a pfofession, and money, by playing on the emotions,

screaming utterly futile invectives and denunciations, these will continue

to do so . And those who still preach "integration" and "brotherhood"

with the whites will keep on marching, singing and praying, not to God,

but to the white man, for they are still unable to understand that white

America had generally condemned and rejected this peace-loving,

brotherly approach of Martin Luther King long before it murdered

him.' This present course of a fragmented and unorganized people, if

followed, will find the succeeding generations of Blacks as weak,

leaderless and powerless as they are today .

For their present road is the easy road : mass meetings, big conventions,

protest resolutions, and splitting up to follow this or that "leader"

with the greatest "gift of gab," all leading exactly nowhere . But to get

down to the hard and persistent work of actually doing something- oh,

now we will come to the parting of ways-the mere talker may retreat .
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Notes


2 . It seems to be the general view throughout the black world that

polls and other data show that whites are hostile to any kind of

movement by Blacks for equality, peaceful, non-violent or otherwise ;

and that this hostile anti-King climate produced his murderer 'as its

representative.[/b]
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[b]All talk about "Black Power" is empty until we begin to make Black

Power a reality in the only way it can be done, and that is by building,

step by step, a race organization so great that it will not only be the voice

of a united people but will carry on efficiently an economic development

program to assist their advance on all other fronts .

The organization-for-unity PLAN presented in this final chapter is an

effort to answer the question, "Which way, you still enshackled

Blacks?"-to answer in specific terms and in some detail . It sets forth

rather clearly one way out . It will be simply great if someone comes up

with an even better plan for racial unity through action . Whatever is

proposed must be a grand design . Nothing else will serve . It must be

bold, daring ; an effort of unheard-of audacity by Blacks, and one that

will bring forth the enemy's scream of "Utopian," "too unrealistic," or

"just another grandiose dream ." This enemy, and let us not forget it for

a single minute, is deeply entrenched within the race as well as outside .

This means that we must face up to the fact that we have problems of a

kind and obstacles to overcome which no other people have .

The tasks we now face will test this genius of the black race . The

Blacks in the United States are in the best position as a lead-off example

for the rest of the African race . For such a movement would further

change the course of history and inspire black youth everywhere, along

with their elders, with a new vision, a sense of direction, and the kind of

outlook that gives meaning to study as the source of inventions and new

discoveries . The challenge to the Blacks on this continent is to overcome

the centuries of their own American version of tribalism and disunity . It

is their greatest challenge in this era of perpetual crisis. They will accept

it if they have come to understand at last that equal rights and equal

justice will never come from appeals to the mighty, and granted as an

Act of Grace, but only from their own position of power and influence

which develop from a united people engaged in great and vast

undertakings of their own . If we fail to accept this challenge at this

critical turning point in our history, we will have proved ourselves

unworthy of having any descendants, and our very names should be

forgotten by them-or cursed by the farthest generation .[/b]
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[b]BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES


Standing alone and isolated in the field for over thirty-five years,

William Leo Hansberry was the teacher who introduced me to the

systematic study of African history and, of equal importance, to the

ancient documentary sources . His massive documentation of early

Greek and Roman historians and geographers of Africa covered several

years of labor, leaving one to wonder how the utterly false teaching that

Africa had no written history spread over the world . For, entirely apart

from the remarkable contributions of archaeology in the 19th and 20th

centuries, there have always been more than sufficient written records

to reconstruct the history of the Blacks from the earliest times .

And I am fully aware that most of the written records have been lost .

The works of Hecataeus, for example, were lost . He was one of the first

Greeks to study and write in Egypt . While much of the most significant

data are fragments scattered here and there throughout many larger

works, as though they were thrown in incidentally, there were some

works devoted wholly to ancient Egypt and Ethiopia . The one to whom

we probably owe the greatest debt is the "Father of History" himself.

Herodotus' History was comprehensive in a sense not equalled by any

of the other early writers . Diodorus, however, if not quite the equal of

the Master, ran a close second . His General History may not have

equalled that of Herodotus in lucidity and style, neither of which is a

matter of too much concern for the researcher, but it is replete with the

kind of historical data without which we would not have the additional

sidelights on the darkened pages of black history .[/b]
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[b]Both Herodotus and Diodorus were outstanding in setting forth for

posterity the attitude of the white world of their day toward the black

world-the extreme reverse of what it is today . The reason is plain : The

early Blacks were the most advanced of all the peoples known to them .

This they did not hesitate to declare, and to acknowledge that their own

European civilization had borrowed heavily from Africa, and borrowed

even more heavily in the field of religion . For this later Western

historians have never forgiven them .

Pliny, the Elder, is a fair example of writers on Africa, referred to

above, where one must wade through a mass of irrelevant matter to find

the bits and pieces of data scattered throughout large volumes . Yet

these fragments are often of the highest importance, as they are in the

case of Pliny's Historia Natural . In this regard Homer's Iliad and

Odyssey are in a class by themselves . Like many other works that give

insights into the early history of Africans, they also have no such

purpose . Moreover, the Iliad and Odyssey are "non-history history," a

myth combining fantasy with facts . Homer's importance in African

history, however, has little to do with the precise truth of any particular

story . Rather, as in the case of the works of Herodotus and Diodorus,

Homer mirrors the very high status of the black world of his day and the

unmistakable deference of the white race to that world .

In my studies under Professor Hansberry, I had read the works of the

writers discussed above and most of those mentioned in this section

below . But the adverse criticism of a whole school of eminent modern

scholars led me back for a more painstaking re-study and critical analysis

of all the questions under attack . Interestingly enough, almost all of the

statements made by the ancient historians that have been challenged

concern, directly or indirectly, the role of the Blacks in history . My

second approach to Herodotus and the others was with the certainty

that I was just as competent to evaluate their works, see "exaggerations,"

and as capable of separating facts from fiction as Sir Alan Gardiner or

any of the members of his school of thought.

Among other writers who made noteworthy contributions in varying

degrees was Strabo, whose Geographica included history along with its

main subject matter . Plato and Plutarch are reference sources, the

latter's De Iside et Osiride being more directly relevant . Quite a number

of the historians and geographers near the end of the B .C. era drew

heavily on the works of such early writers as Hecataeus, Argatharchides,

Herodotus and Manetho.[/b]
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[b]If it had been my purpose to mention the early historians on Africa in

order of importance, Manetho, the African historian, would have

headed the list ; for the records of this Greek-speaking native son of the

4th century B.C., are authoritative sources which no scholar on Egypt

ignores . His Annals differ in many respects from other records, e.g .,

those of the great Jewish historian of the period, Josephus, the King-lists,

the Turin Canon, etc . These differences in names, spelling and dates

about which so many scholars sweat and wrangle never did seem to me

to be of earth-shaking importance . Quite the .contrary, it would have

been strange if all of these different chronologies had been uniformly

the same . It should be remembered that all Qf these 4th and 5th century

historians were covering events extending back from four to six thousand

years before their time . The numerous discoveries of relatively recent

archaeology have substantially confirmed their work . Examples are the

inscriptions found on numerous palettes, stelae, the walls of tombs and

temples and the Palermo and Rosetta Stones .

Some of the best histories of the earliest periods were written by

archaeologists such as Petrie and others appearing in the formal

Bibliography below . Coming on the scene over two thousand years after

Manetho, Herodotus, Diodirus, Strabo, et al ., they supplemented the

works of these first scholars with the additional evidence that had been

left in the keeping of the long-since dead and forgotten or recovered

from the sands . Petrie headed a line of investigators and writers without

whose works the world would be intellectually poorer-Breasted, Budge,

Arkell, Africanus, Baikfe, Boas, Delafosse, Garstand, Griffith, Nims and

others . The illustrious role is long . The Bible is one of our richest sources

for many different sidelights on the black world .

With the spread of Islam in Africa and the entrance of France, Arab

and French writers dominated the scenes up to and through the 19th

century . French and Arab sources, therefore, became indispensable in

African research . Indeed, the same may be said of investigators and

writers from all the invading countries . The fact that I reject many of

their unspoken pre-suppositions and the inevitable conclusions they

reach therefrom has nothing to do with the usefulness of their works or

the brilliance of their scholarship . Even some of the authors with whom

I most bitterly disagree, nevertheless, led me to rewarding sources I had

neither seen nor had been aware of .[/b]
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[b]It is also rewarding, though in an unhappy way, to see no end to the

accumulation of examples that further confirm viewpoints I actually

wish were untrue . But as the final chapters here were being written,

Professor Robert W . July's big 650 pages of A History of the African

People came off the press as the latest justification of my indictment of

Western historians . I recommend it for reading because it is a 1970

edition of scholarship skillfully carrying out its traditional work on the

Blacks . Part One : "Ancient Africa" rearranges, omits and misrepresents

many of the well-known facts in order to fit the main racial theory . The

large number of pictures, like the mass of factual data in the book, can

easily disguise its main thrust and theme : The black race is inferior .

In the Bibliography that follows I left out quite a number of secondary

works used because so many of them seemed to be little more than

repetitions of those selected . My decision to eliminate almost all of the

periodical literature used was not easy, especially as regards the special

studies in professional journals ; however, there is a point where an

enough-is-enough conclusion is reached . Those who have a mania for

the latest works published as their guide will miss the boat here, for

some of our most valuable sources were the oldest publications . Some

can be seen only in libraries and special museum collections, others are

microfilmed . Research sources are no longer a problem . During the last

few years there have been many large and comprehensive "Africana"

bibliographies published in Europe and America .

The new interest and work in the field of Oral history are among the

most significant developments in recent times . My own field studies

were largely involved with oral tradition . This fact should be repeated

finally in connection with the discussion of sources because the oral

records played an important role in many aspects of this work.



********[/b]
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


D.P. Abraham, "Maramuca : An Exercise in the Combined Use of
Portuguese Records and Oral Tradition," Journal of African
History, Vol. II, No . 2, 1961 .


Leo Africanus, History and Description of Africa, London, 1896.


Thomas George Allen, "Egyptian Stelae," Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago, 1936 .


A.J. Arkell, Early Khartoum, London, 1945 .
A History of the Sudan, London, 1945 .


Edward Ayrton, Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at El-Mahasna, London and
Boston, 1910 .


James Baikie, A Century of Excavation in the Land of the Pharaohs.
New York, 1924 .
, Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley, London,
1932 .
, The Life of the Ancient East, New York, 1923 .


Sir Samuel White Baker, In the Heart of Africa, New York, 1884 .


Edward G. Balfour, "Negro Races," Cyclopedia of India, London,


1885, ed . by Joseph W. Widney, Race Life of the Aryan Peoples .


Abu Abd Batuta, "The Travels of Ibn Batuta," (In Egypt, Syria,
Persia, Zanzibar, Tartary, Hindostan, Ceylon, China, Spain, and
Africa ; between 1325 and 1353), tr . from the Arabic abridged
manuscript copies preserved in the Public Library at Cambridge,
London : 1829, p . 243 .


Grace Beardsley, The Negro in Greek and Roman Civilization, London,
1929 .


Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent
Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations,
in Egypt and Nubia, London, 1822 .
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Edward Blyden, Africa and the Africans, London, 1903 .


Franz Boas, "Old African Civilizations," Atlanta University Leaflet, No.
19, May 31, 1906 .


E.W. Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors, London, 1958 .


T. Bowdich, The Discoveries of the Portuguese in the Interior of
Angola, London, 1824 .


James Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the
Persian Conquest, London, 1906.


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