Central Africa Project collection, [ca. 1920]-1980.

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Central Africa Project collection, [ca. 1920]-1980.

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Correspondence, telegrams, minutes, annual reports, financial records, personnel records of bureaucrats in administrative units, and associated documents of the local Belgian colonial administration in the Rwandi-Urundi territory and its relationship with the government of Belgium. Information pertains to the administration of the colony, elections, agriculture, taxes, education, and the role of the United Nations in the administration, ca. 1920-1961. Bulk of the collection consists of printed matter including press packets and publications. Printed matter relates to the Belgian colonial administration and the United Nations trusteeship in the Congo and the Rwandi-Urundi territory, 1927-1961; the Mouvement National Congolais, 1959-1961; and the Republic of Burundi, 1957-1977; as well as other social, political, economic, and cultural subjects. Also, reports, journals, periodicals, press clippings, and miscellaneous material related to the Belgian Congo-Zaire, the Rwandi-Urundi territory and the republics of Rwanda and Burundi, and Africa in general.

135 lin. ft.

fre,

eng,

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Mouvement national congolais

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United Nations. Trusteeship Council

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Central Africa Project.

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Informational resource organization which supports multi-disciplinary research on modern French-speaking Central Africa consisting of Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi. From the description of Central Africa Project collection, [ca. 1920]-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570921 From the guide to the Central Africa Project collection, ca. 1920]-1980, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) ...