Daily Monitor Sunday February 07 2021 Roy Innis, CORE’s national director (left), with Gen Idi Amin, president of Uganda. The photo is from the early 1970s. Photo | harlemcore.com/ Summary According to the book To Those Who Have Died, Uganda offered its African American friends the unique experience of belonging, at last, to the African continent to contribute to where their effort was valued. Advertisement About 40 years ago, in December 1972, a delegation from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), an Afro-American organisation fighting against racial inequality in the United States, arrived in Uganda for a meeting with then president Idi Amin.