Summary
The term under which the June-July 1967 SNCC Newsletter launches its international feature: Afro-Americans are presented as an integral part of the Third World, so that struggles in Africa, Asia and Latin America are presented as directly relating to the Black struggle in the United States (Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge — SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967), PDF p.4-5).
Details
- The feature’s introductory box defines its scope as Africa, Asia, Latin America, American Indians and all persons of African descent: Afro-Americans are an integral part of The Third World (Africa, Asia, Latin America, American Indians and all persons of African descent) (PDF p.4).
- The box says the feature will contain news and analysis of what is happening around the world and how it relates to the struggle at home, and its first subject is the Arab-Israeli conflict, whose facts, it says, pertain to the struggle at home as well as to the lives of brothers in the Middle-East, Africa and Asia (PDF p.4-5).
- The illustration on PDF p.5, signed Kofi, curves the words THIRD WORLD around two Black men, one raising a fist, under a Liberation Movement banner, held by chains from a hand marked with a Star of David (PDF p.5).
Related pages
Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge — SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967), Black Power’s Palestine, Black–Palestinian solidarity, Zionism