The civil rights movement in the United States included the centuries-long struggles of African Americans for ________ and ________

Africans were fighting to gain __________ and _______from European colonial rule.

Africans and many African Americans in this period embraced the idea that Africans and their descendants in other parts of the world had shared histories of______ and ______

Which country was established as the first country in sub-Saharan Africa and to gain independence from British colonial rule in 1957?

What is diaspora?

What year did Nigeria gain its independence?

African Americans began to see their struggle for racial liberation in more __________

Each _________ against colonialism in Africa directly influenced the civil Rights movement.

Kwame Nkrumah was ________ first prime minister and went to college at ________.

Nkrumah viewed the conditions of African Americans as part of the larger African diaspora and

Challenged British colonial masters, paving the way for independence in 1957.

When Martin Luther King Jr. and several other African American leaders made the pilgrimage to Ghana, the country's independence took on greater significance for the ______________

He was a central figure and spokes person for the civil rights movement who championed the philosophy of non-violent resistance against racial oppression?

His speech connected the suffering of African Americans with those on the African continent.

What does repatriate mean

Did the gains of the civil rights movement during the mid 1950s to mid 1960s end the structural racism and inequality in all arenas of American life?

Who staged a demonstration at the American Embassy in the Ghanaian capital city of Accra to coincide with the historic march on Washington in 1963?

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Two decades into the twenty-first century, as the United States reckons with its history of racism and police violence against African Americans, African nations have joined global efforts to denounce American racism.

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