African American Students Foundation (Cora Weiss) collection.

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"In April 1959 Kenyan trade unionist Tom Mboya came to the United States for a six week tour organized by the American Committee on Africa.... At the end of the tour Mboya had promises for over 40 scholarships. Shortly after Mboya returned to Kenya the African American Students Foundation (AASF) was...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: African American Students Foundation
Council on Educational Cooperation with Africa
Pan-African Freedom Movement of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa (Organization)
African Activist Archive
American Committee on Africa
Other Authors: Mboya, Tom
Obama, Barack H. (Barack Hussein), 1936-1982
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
Weiss, Cora, 1934-
Weiss, Peter, 1925-
Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023
Montero, Frank
Houser, George M.
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
Mungai, Njoroge, 1926-
Ofwana, Mark
Poitier, Sidney
Language:English
Published: [1957-2009]
Subjects:
African American Students Foundation.
Mboya, Tom > Correspondence.
Scheinman, William X. > Correspondence.
Montero, Frank > Correspondence.
Weiss, Cora, > 1934- > Correspondence.
College students > Africa, East > History > 20th century > Sources.
College students > Kenya > History > 20th century > Sources.
College students > Africa > History > 20th century > Sources.
Educational assistance, American > Africa, East > Sources.
Educational assistance, American > Africa > Sources.
United States > Relations > Africa, East > Sources.
Africa, East > Relations > United States > Sources.
Genre:
Correspondence.
Sources.
Online Access:
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Local Note:
MSU: The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
Physical Description:9 boxes ; 27 x 40 x 13 cm
Variant Title:
African American Students Foundation collection [Other title]
African American Students Foundation (AASF) collection. [Other title]
Cora Weiss (African American Students Foundation) collection. [Other title]
Kenya Airlift collection. [Other title]
African Airlift collection. [Other title]
AASF collection. [Other title]
African Activist Archive. [Other title]
Format: Kit
Contents:
  • Box A. AASF Board Members
  • High Schools Klotzle UUA
  • High Schools Klotzle UUA
  • Klotzle-High Schools
  • High Schools
  • Belafonte, Harry
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Archives related to Tom Mboya and ACOA
  • IIE
  • Wingspread Conference Racine, WI/IIE
  • Summer Jobs, IIE, State Dept. 1/62
  • United Negro College Fund
  • Tom Mboya Correspondence, CW (Cora Weiss), WXS (William X. Scheinman), Montero Bowles
  • Mboya Atlantic 7/61
  • Mboya Press 1961-62
  • Mboya Trip Expenses
  • Mboya-ACOA
  • Kenya Africa National Union
  • Jackie Robinson Columns
  • Travel-Costs-Arrangement 1961
  • K.D. Luke, British Embassy
  • December 1963 Independence, Uhuru Celebration
  • Malawi Students
  • Julius Nyerere, AASF Board
  • Buell Gallagher, AASF Board
  • Canada Africa Students Foundation
  • Montero Fayette Co. 2-4/61
  • Montero, Frank Correspondence
  • Phelps Stokes Fund
  • Taylor Ostrander Res.
  • Kennedy Fuda 1961
  • Gloria and Gordon Hagberg AAI
  • Ralphe Bunche, May 1960
  • ABC Comment October 1960
  • Student Newsletter 1958
  • WXS: Bills, Mboya LR 1959-1961
  • Coombs 10 Point Program 12/61
  • AFED and TNG State Report 1958-1961
  • 1962 Conference at State
  • Reluctant Host April 1962
  • Fund Raising Materials
  • November 1959 Expenses
  • Israel Request 1960, Peter Weiss
  • Statement 1/24/61
  • February 1962 Summary Report
  • Incorporation Papers
  • WXS-State June 1961
  • Closing, AASF 1961
  • International Educational, Cultural and Related Activities for African Countries South of the Sahara.
  • Box B. Accounts Bills Grants 1960-61
  • Accounts Bills
  • Financial Items Bills etc.
  • Financial Requests
  • Airlift 1959
  • Orientation 1960
  • Orientation 1960, NY Reception
  • Adopt-a-Student
  • African Freedom Day 1959-1962, African Freedom Day AAUN Riverdale
  • Foreign Students-NY State Commission for Human Rights 1962
  • J.K. Kamere
  • Nkrumah Dinner 1958
  • Lovestone, Jay
  • Houser, George ACOA-Lists, Airlift Students
  • Cora Weiss emails re Alumni
  • Summer Employment
  • Obama, Barack H. Sr.
  • AASF Statement of Plans 1/14/60
  • AFL-CIO-UAW
  • Kheel, T.W.
  • Tuthill, Gretchen
  • Harrington, Don, Rev. Community Church
  • Munene, Macharia, University of Nairobi
  • John Murra Vassar
  • Bill Scheinman
  • CECA (Council for Educational Cooperation with Africa)
  • Student Grants 1961
  • Student Reports
  • Ira Morris-Cyrus Karunga
  • Mwihia-Mwangi
  • Ernest Mungai Nduru
  • 1959 Nigerian Students
  • Samouello Onyango
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ
  • Kirksville Flap Dec. 1960
  • Ofwana, Mark
  • Wofford, Harris 9/17/07 Interview
  • National Plan for Foreign Students for Student Exchange History
  • Inter-Agency Council for African Educational Affairs
  • PAFMECA
  • Student Requests 1962
  • NAFSA for Student Advisors
  • 1961 Summer Grants 1961, IIE
  • Box C 1959 Press Clips (partial)
  • 1963-64 Press
  • 1960 Press
  • Press Clips Related
  • Press Clips 1961
  • Africa General Press Clips
  • Time magazine 1959, 1960
  • Press Inquiries, US and Kenya
  • CDs/DVDs: 50th Anniversary of AASF/Book Launch for Airlift To America
  • Cora Weiss, The Reluctant Host by Ed Joyce WCBS 4/12/62, The Today Show NBC-TV 6/19/61
  • AASF Photos
  • Reproduction of MLK Photo
  • Untitled CD
  • Check Books
  • Check Stubs 1958-60, 1960-61, 1961.
  • Box D. The Phelps- Stokes Fund and African Educational Development
  • African Studies Bulletin
  • External Research Report-African Programs of U.S. Organizations
  • The Success that Failed: An Experiment in Culture Change in Africa
  • IIR Survey of the African Student
  • African Students in the United States Dec. 1960
  • African Students in the United States 1957
  • School Reports-Students Holiday Plans
  • Bunche Replies re: Scholarships 1960
  • African American Students Foundation Replies through 5/13/60
  • West Africa Student Inquiries
  • Kenya
  • WXS and Frank Correspondence 1958-1960
  • Student Inquiries 1960
  • Nyasaland
  • Northern and Southern Rhodesia
  • Ruanda-Urundi/Zanzibar
  • Tanganyika
  • Uganda
  • Africa: High School Applicants
  • Student Inquiries Ethiopia 1961
  • Student Inquiries Lisboa 1961
  • Student Inquiries, Miscellanous West Africa 1961
  • Student Inquiries from South Africa 1961
  • Student Airlift Alumni-Research 2007
  • Inquiries from Ghana 1961
  • Student Inquiries from Congo 1961
  • Student Inquiries from Nigeria
  • Bunche Replies volume 2.
  • Box E. 2007 Alumni Reunion Nairobi
  • Airlift Reunion January 2007 Photographs
  • Airlift Alumni-Research 2007
  • Airlift arrival photos 1959
  • Personal Record book, January 2007 Reunion
  • 2007 Alumni Reunion information
  • Black and white photos 1959 and 1960
  • Fred Okatcha file
  • Cora Weiss correspondence with William X. Scheinman (WXS)-Kenya Biz schemes
  • Kiano-WXS correspondence
  • Hagberg-AAI
  • Foreign Student Act Congress 1960, Peter Weiss testimony
  • AASF accounts
  • Ledger, 1959-1962
  • The African American Students Foundation and the Airlift, 1959-63 (ASA paper, 2009) / Cora Weiss
  • 1959 scrapbook of photographs, press cuttings, Tom Mboya press releases, list of arrived students, and letter signed by Harry Belafonte, Jackie Robinson and Sidney Poitier, August 24 1959
  • copy of the book Airlift to America (2009) / Tom Shachtman