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AFRICANIZATION:
THE NEW INPUT
TO BLACK EDUCATION

PRESTON WILCOX

dedicated to the 
National Association of Afro-American Educators
"I am happy to know that black Americans have returned spiritually to Africa. I have come back to America and found a new Africa in America. Marcus Garvey's and my philosophy have come into its own and I'm alive to see it."
Amy Ashwood Garvey, in "Widow of Marcus Garvey, 'Black Moses,' Revisits Harlen," in New York Times, August 17, 1968, P. 17

The surge to restore the Black community in intellectual, psychological, physical, social, economic and political terms is taking place in the form of a cultural revolution at the doorstep of the traditional Little Red Schoolhouse from which Black Americans have been planfully excluded. This culturally radical effort forces one to view the Black Restoration Movement as a nation-building activity--a process designed to build into the instinct and habit systems of Black people a need to view the many pieces of the struggle as a single conceptual resistance to white America's design to turn Black people away from their African heritage--and their historic charge to figuratively return to Africa to join in the liberation struggle of Black people around the world.
If ever Black Americans achieve the status and power to hold
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Preston Wilcox is chairman of the Association of Afro-American Educators. He is a New York teacher and social worker. 
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