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Pan-African Skills Project collection
- Title
- Pan-African Skills Project collection, 1970-1981.
- Author
- Davis, Irving, 1937-1981.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | No restrictions | Sc MG 640 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- .4 lin. ft. (1 archival box)
- Summary
- The Irving Davis/Pan-African Skills Project collection consists of a memorial program for Irving Davis, proposals and policies of PASP, and correspondence relating to the Project, 1970-1981. There are also flyers documenting PASP's projects and fundraisers.
- Subjects
- Source (note)
- Conteh Davis
- Biography (note)
- Irving Davis (1937-1981), an activist during the 1960s and 1970s, conceived and founded the Pan-African Skills Project (PASP), based on Pan-African/Black Nationalist philosophies. The main aim of PASP was to send skilled African Americans to work in newly independent African nations to assist with their development programs. Started as a project of the Africa Commission of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, within a few years of its inception it was mutually agreed that PASP should be an independent organization.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 640
- OCLC
- NYPW04-A246
- Author
- Davis, Irving, 1937-1981.
- Title
- Pan-African Skills Project collection, 1970-1981.
- Biography
- Irving Davis (1937-1981), an activist during the 1960s and 1970s, conceived and founded the Pan-African Skills Project (PASP), based on Pan-African/Black Nationalist philosophies. The main aim of PASP was to send skilled African Americans to work in newly independent African nations to assist with their development programs. Started as a project of the Africa Commission of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, within a few years of its inception it was mutually agreed that PASP should be an independent organization.PASP projects included the sponsorship of the Economic Development and African-Afro-American Relations conference in 1971 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The conference provided a platform for Afro-American and African churchmen to discuss Black/African theology, education, economic development and trans-continental relations. The proceedings of the conference can be found in the book "Black Faith and Black Solidarity".
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 640