Letter from Liberation Committee for Africa to United Nations Secretary General
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Liberation Committee for Africa (New York, N.Y.) Watts, Daniel H United NationsSecretary-General
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Signed Daniel H. Watts, Chairman; addressed to Dag Hammarskjold; complaining of "open discrimination and hostility" faced by many Afro-Americans trying to gain entry to U.N. buildings; furnishing "a glaring example" thereof; and noting that "if peace is to have any chance for survival it must first begin in the United Nations."
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