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Tom Mboya & Dr. Martin L King at a Civil Rights Rally in DC

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African Nationalist Thomas Joseph Mboya coordinated an "airlift" in 1959 of 81 Kenyan students to the USA to attend college. With the help of Dr. King, the African American Students Foundation and its sponsors, Harry Belafonte, Jackie Robinson, and Sidney Poitier, Mboya raised sufficient funds to cover the students' travel expenses. One of the students was a certain Barack Husein Obama snr., the late father of US President Barrack Obama. This rally was in Washington DC, 1959

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  • Left me speechless! Good to hear him speak again Mboya was killed in my aunt's pharmacy!

    I was playing outside and going to Hilton to get pastries

  • I grew up in Nairobi, knew that pharmacy very well.

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  • @gazawire tell that to a Kenyan Kikuyu and you become an instant enemy.they would shoot him dead even today.

  • Watch NATEPERKINS TV SHOW There have been many videos I have produced over the years, where my heart has been literally torn-apart by the suffering that has been presented in them... and this video is no exception! For further information about the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis! Super Thanks Nate

  • @mrca360 AMEN

  • Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in (1959) New and March with USA President Barack Obama Father from Kenya and African Nationalist Thomas Joseph Mboya coordinated an "airlift" in 1959 of 81 Kenyan students to the USA to attend college.

  • @mrca360 Haha you could not have stated it much clearer.

  • @wesmonite Go to Syracuse University's Bird Library 6th Floor (Central NY); they have the largest special collection on Mboya: audio, audio-visual and text.

  • @daniells71 do u know where i can find more of mboya videos?i know he spoke several times in new york,united nations and chicago in the sixties but i cannot find n videos.

  • @mrca360 thanxs 4 da info. i never knew dat!! it's pretty amazing

  • @gazawire and i kinda agree with then korean prezzo. kenya should be far by now, economically.

  • Tom Mboya,Nkwame Nkrumah ,Patrice Lumumba are true s

    ons of Africa

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