What Are We Doing in the Congo?
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Object Description
A pamphlet titled [What are We doing in the Congo?]. The cover features black print on discolored paper. Below the title, is a depiction of a hand labeled [USA BIG BUSINESS] rakes its fingers across a political map of the Congo, taking gold, copper, tin, uranium, diamonds, and cheap labor while leaving bodies in its wake. The interior consists of twenty-three pages of text. The back cover has an advertisement for New Outlook Publishers.
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New Outlook Publishers, American, What Are We Doing in the Congo?, 1960s, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. CC0.
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