Pamphlet about the Patrice Lumumba Coalition: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This pamphlet discusses the Patrice Lumumba Coalition and the Henry Kissinger- Johannes Vorster meeting. The title of the pamphlet reads: [POWER TO SOWETO! / Defy The Kissinger- Vorster Conspiracy!]. The image at the top of the page depicts black South Africans holding placards that read: [TO HELL / WITH / AFRIKAANS]. Three paragraphs of text are typed below the image. The back page features five images of protests and law enforcement.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1976
• Created by: Elombe Brath, American, 1936 - 2014
• Subject of: Patrice Lumumba Coalition, American, founded 1975
• Subject of: Henry Alfred Kissinger, German American, born 1923
• Subject of: Balthazar Johannes Vorster, South African, 1915 - 1973
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Open): 11 × 17 in. (27.9 × 43.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Closed): 11 × 8 3/4 in. (27.9 × 22.2 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Political organizations
• Object number: 2015.97.27.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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