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Agenda for National Black Organizations and Leaders in Arts and Culture meeting

1972

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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Agenda from the Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture meeting of National Black Organizations and Leaders in Arts and Culture. The agenda is printed on legal paper listing the conveners of the meeting, the location and address of the meeting, as well as the agenda and invitation to the meeting. Top third [2nd WORLD BLACK FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND CULTURE/c"/"o CONSULATE GENERAL OF NIGERIA PHONE: PL2-1670/575 LEXINGTON AVENUE, N.Y. 10022/Meeting of National Black Organizations/and Leaders in Arts and Culture/DATE: Friday, June 23, 1972/VENUE: Johnson Publishing Co. Building/(10th Floor)/820 South Michigan Avenue/Chicago, Illinois 60605/TIME: 10 a.m/CHIEF CONVENER: MR. OSSIE DAVIS]. Middle third left column [Co-Conveners:-/Mr. Charles Diggs, Chairman/Congressional Black Caucus/Mr. Imamu Baraka/Congress of African People/Dr. Charles Wesley/Ass. for Study of Negro/Life and History/Dr. H.R. Branson/President, Lincoln Univ./Dr. Ms. Samelia Lewis/National Conference of/Artists]. Middle third right column [Mr. Samuel L. Evans/Philadelphia Bicentennial Corp./Rev. Jesse Jackson, Director/Operation Push, Chicago/Miss Dorothy Height/National Council of Negro/Women/Dr.

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Catalog reference: 2014.154.5

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