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What Are We Doing in the Congo?

1965

Congo (Republic of), Central Africa, Africa

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A pamphlet titled [What are We doing in the Congo?]. The cover features black print on discolored paper. Below the title, is a depiction of a hand labeled [USA BIG BUSINESS] rakes its fingers across a political map of the Congo, taking gold, copper, tin, uranium, diamonds, and cheap labor while leaving bodies in its wake. The interior consists of twenty-three pages of text. The back cover has an advertisement for New Outlook Publishers.

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Catalog reference: 2010.55.30

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