Ed Vaughn: Remembering an icon

Download or read book Ed Vaughn: Remembering an icon written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by Kindle Direct Publishing. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Ed Vaughn, an American civil rights leader, political activist, Pan-Africanist, and an influential figure in the black power movement and founder and owner of the second-largest black-owned bookstore in the United States based in Detroit. The author, Godfrey Mwakikagile who knew him for many years, has written a book which focuses on the role Ed Vaughn played as a leader in the African American community and in the American civil rights movement for decades and also as a leader of an organisation he co-founded, the Pan-African Congress-USA, to forge ties with African countries and support the liberation struggle against white minority rule in the countries of southern Africa and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. The organisation also sponsored students from Africa to study in the United States. Some of those students were the author, Godfrey Mwakikagile, and Amadou S.O. Taal who served as an economist under President Dawda Jawara of The Gambia and years later served concurrently as Gambia's ambassador to twelve African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Chad, Rwanda and to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Ed Vaughn worked with many leaders in the civil rights movement including Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). He also worked with Malcolm X in Detroit. He fought for justice and remained committed until the end of his life.