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<sanctity33@hotmail.com> Peter Limb has touched upon an instructive dimension of this discussion: the ways in which the status assigned to African immigrants, the concomitant limitations on their associational lives, and the real dangers of transgressing these boundaries may have prevented Africans from participating actively or in large numbers in the civil rights movement. Perhaps the discussion and investigation should turn to reasons why there was a paucity of African participation in the black emancipa on struggle relative to the strength of their numerical presence in America. This can be investigated in the ethnographic present, since the impediments mentioned by Limb, among other constraints, continue, in my opinion, to discourage Africans in the US from aligning too closely with American and America-based political struggles. So, in addition to straining so hard to find direct evidence of Africans' involvement in the civil rights movement--evidence which seems to be thin--- we could discuss why African students and workers living in America have for the most part not participated actively in Black American struggles.
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