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Harlem’s 1946 fight against South African starvation foreshadowed anti-apartheid struggle
February 24, 2021
1:04 PM CDT
By W. Alphaeus Hunton
Food is piled up on the front of a stage as Alphaeus Hunton addresses 4,000 people at Abyssinian Baptist Church to open the South African famine relief campaign in 1946. Josh Lawrence, Paul Robeson, Rev. Shelton Bishop, and Adam C. Powell Sr. are seated behind the cans and bags of food. | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / New York Public Library, Astor | At right, Daily Worker coverage of the event. / People's World Archives