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Airlift to America
http://www.airlifttoamerica.org/Resource Type: Website This website is related to the book Airlift to America: How Barack Obama. Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours by Tom Shachtman. The book and website tell the saga of how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to "airlift" to U.S. universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change the world. United States Subject Headings |