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American Society of African Culture — Wikipedia (en)

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The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was an organization of African-American writers, artists, and scholars. The society was founded as a result of the Congress of Negro Writers and Artists in 1956 based on the idea of the French fr:Société africaine de culture. In June 1957, the American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was officially founded by five African-American intellectuals: the political scientist and civil rights activist John A. Davis, historian and social scientist Horace Mann Bond (1904–1972), professor of French and future American ambassador Will Mercer Cook (1903–1987), philosopher William T. Fontaine (1909–1968) and James Ivy, editor of the NAACP's Crisis. Thurgood Marshall and Duke Ellington were also founding fathers. During its heyday in the early 1960s, AMSAC had around four hundred members. One of the main goals of the organisation was to expose African Americans to their African heritage. This aim was pursued through organising exhibitions, lectures, music performances, and conferences in the United States (primarily New York) and Africa (occasionally). AMSAC published the volumes Pan-Africanism Reconsidered and Southern Africa in Transition, edited versions of the papers and discussions of AMSAC-sponsored international conferences in, respectively, I960 and I963. Earlier, AMSAC edited and published in Presence Africaine, Africa Seen by American Negro Scholars . AMSAC also published a quarterly journal, African Forum, beginning in the summer of 1965 with themes such as African unity, African socialism, the writer (in recognition of the opening of the First World Festival of Negro Arts), the military in Africa, and South Africa and her neighbors.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «American Society of African Culture» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_African_Culture
Wikidata Q4745044: «organization, founded in 1956, for the celebration of African and African-Diaspora culture» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4745044
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