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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 8, 1968
Negro group wants separate nation in U.S.
By SHARON WOODSON
Associate Feature Editor
The newest and perhaps boldest movement in the history of black separatism is The Republic of New Africa. Convening in Detroit this spring, some 200 black persons from across the country gave birth to what is not a militant civil rights group seeking equality with white America, but instead a black nation—a government with its own elected officials.
During that convention, New African delegates signed a declaration of Independence stating black people of America "forever free and independent of the jurisdiction of the United States."
It may sound incredible, but the Republic of New Africa is in fact only the contemporary version of what has been developing within America's racial situation.
As far back as 1885 an attorney in Fort Smith, Ark., S. H. Scott, attempted to encourage support for an all black state. In 1889 a similar plan was taken in the Oklahoma territory by Edwin P. McCabe, who was at one time state auditor in Kansas.
Largest Movement
The largest separatist movement was organized by Marcus Garvey, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Assn. in the early 1920's. "Back to Africa" was the theme and cry of Garvey and his followers.
Elijah Muhammad of the Muslims has for nearly 40 years preached a gospel urging blacks to separate from whites.
Voicing a lost faith in their white countrymen's will to honor their own principles and recognize the rights of black men as they would their own, separatists are trying to put in the hands of black men the political, economic and spiritual destiny of black people.
No Legal Citizenship
Necklines to take plunge
The new government doesn't anticipate that the land will be granted until the government has proven it has the power to take the land. The Republic's officials at a recent meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, announced plans to recruit a combat-ready Black Legion. H. Rap Brown is minister of defense for the Republic of New Africa.
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it was in the spirit of Malcolm X that black people came together to establish The Republic of New Africa. The organizers of the convention were followers of Malcolm. After Malcolm's death, his followers founded a Detroit-based group called the Malcolm X Society.
The republic also plans to conduct a vote in black communities throughout the nation on the question of separation stated the new government's minister of Information, Richard
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NEW YORK (UPI)—Pucker up and whistle.
that's what the girl watchers of America will do when they see the batch of peek-a-boo dresses the nation's trend-setting designers are ordering up for spring and summer.
When women wearing them go anywhere, the air conditioning had better be on low-to avoid chest colds.
Much of the exposure is achieved by v-necklines that plunge to the waist or lower. Such dresses, seen in many collections as the designers show their newest to the nation's buyers, are meant to be worn without inner support of any kind.
"Black people," according to the government of The Republic of New Africa, "have never had legal citizenship in the United States"; their premise being based on when slaves were set free they were given no choice with regard to becoming citizens. The 13th and 14th amendments, said the new government, forced citizenship on black people, and were, therefore, illegal acts.
Other exposure is via cut-outs baring parts of the mid-section. Consider some of the things seen:
Mollie Parnis had transparent insets in the midriff section of several dresses. Long a designer of "ladies clothes" and a favorite of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Mrs. Parnes even showed a v-plunge for the no-bra set.
In the Tiffteau and Busch collection a no-bra dress just had crosses of fabric across the bosom line.
Oscar de la Renta, twice a winner of the Coty Award, used the deep-V on both daytime, late day and formals. The plunges on long evening gowns were the most severe.
Adele Simpson stated the case for the body beautiful by showing chiffon harem-pants outfits with brief tops most frequently seen on belly dancers.
Christian Dior—New York showed a gold and white sari printed number transparent enough in organza to spot the bikini-type panties beneath.
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The new government demands reparations, taken through a united black power Congress. Besides demands for money and
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B. Henry, Henry, who worked as a technical editor for the federal government for 10 years in Detroit, is author of a book, "War In America" which provides the frame of reference on which the concept of the new government is based.
The new government's First
Vice President, Milton R. Henry, brother of the information minister, is one of the foremost ideologists in the new black nation. Henry, an attorney and former city councilman in Pontiac, Mich., was a personal friend of Malcolm X and accompanied him on his visit to Africa.
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