Robert Van Lierop papers, 1968-1988.

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Robert Van Lierop papers, 1968-1988.

Personal papers documenting Robert Van Lierop's activities as a political activist on behalf of liberation movements in Southern Africa and East Timor, as an independent filmmaker and television producer, and as the Permanent Representative of Vanuatu at the United Nations.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6827432

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Van Lierop, Robert.

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African-American filmmaker, political activist and Permanent Representative of the Republic on Vanuatu at the United Nations. Robert VAn Lierop began his professional career in 1967 as an Assistant Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the areas of civil rights and school desegregation. He travelled to Africa in 1971 and produced his first film on the struggle for independence in Mozambique, "A Luta Continua." A second film...

Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.

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FESPACO (Festival)

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American committee on Africa

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The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was formed in 1953 as the successor to Americans for South African Resistance, then a two-year-old group formed to support the campaign of nonviolent protests against apartheid led by the African National Congress. ACOA broadened the original scope to include anticolonial struggles throughout the continent. It worked on many fronts: monitoring racist stereotyping in the media; lobbying the State Department and United Nations to adopt anti-apartheid, anti-c...

Pan-African Solidarity Committee.

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Polaroid corporation

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Founded 1937. Manufacturer of audio/video equipment; electronic components. From the description of Archives, 1937-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83622740 ...