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(BLACK POWER.) Pair of documents on the founding of the Republic of New Afrika. 2 sheets, each about 11 x 8¼ inches; folds, light toning. Detroit, MI, 1968-1969
Milton R. Henry. Circular Letter Signed "Brother Milton" on letterhead of the Malcolm X Society, one page. Announces plans for a national convention to be held at the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit later that month, "to set up a separate Black Government . . . separate from and independent of the jurisdiction of the United States." This would be the founding meeting of the Republic of New Afrika. Detroit, MI, 3 March 1968.
"We Are Asking You to Vote for Land and Power." Double-sided illustrated flier. A call for all Black Americans to "build a separate free, powerful, rich, humane black nation on land reclaimed by black people in the South," with elections to be held by January 1970. Demands reparations, with the Republic authorized to negotiate the settlement: "For every person, $10,000, $4,000 for the individual; $6,000 for the Republic." On verso is "From the Declaration of Independence, the Aims of the Revolution . . . Land and Power!" Detroit, MI: Republic of New Africa, [1969].
