Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
39 p., Restrictions on travel to Cuba have been a key and often contentious component in US efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government since the early 1960s. Under the George W. Bush Administration, restrictions on travel and on private remittances to Cuba were tightened. Congress took action in March 2009 by including two provisions in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations measure (P.L. 111-8) that eased restrictions on family travel and travel related to marketing and sale of agricultural and medical goods to Cuba -- Subsequently, in April 2009, President Obama announced that his Administration would go further and allow unlimited family travel and remittances. Tables.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
38 p., 019: 35143042; edited by Minority Rights Group; 0305-6252; Text first published in 'No longer invisible' by Minority Rights Publications: 1995; Authors: Jameelah S. Muhammad ... [et al.]; Includes bibliographical references (p. 38)
East Lansing, MI: Women and International Development Programme, Michigan State University Women and International Development Programme, Michigan State University
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
48 p, Analyzes the relations between gender and gold mining among the Ndjuka Maroons, forest people of Suriname, South America. This is discussed within the context of women comprising a substantial percentage of the World's poor, for whom small-scale gold mining can be attractive.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
36 p., The campaign referred to in title was against Yanga and the Government of new Spain. The reason was the abuse against blacks who arrived on the shores of Veracruz in the middle of the 16th century. Yanga or Nyanga was an African leader of a maroon colony of fugitive slaves in the highlands near Veracruz, Mexico during the early period of Spanish colonial rule.
Martin,Tony (Author) and Emancipation Support Committee (Author)
Format:
Pamphlet
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Dover, MA: Majority Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
A lecture launching the 1997 commemoration of Emancipation delivered for the Emancipation Support Committee at Spektakula Forum, Port of Spain, on June 22, 1997., 28 p.
Washington: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
15 p., In 1974 the MSRC published this bibliography in Porter's honor. Dr. Michael R. Winston reported: "The Research Center staff is pleased that its first public service bibliography is dedicated to Dr. Porter, whose example as a librarian and scholar is a sturdy foundation for future development."
