Republic of New Afrika
US black nationalist organization and movement
Republic of New Afrika
The Republic of New Afrika (RNA) is a black nationalist organization in the United States founded in 1968 by supporters of Malcolm X. The organization has three goals: creation of an independent socialist country or nation-state in the heart of the Black Belt in the American South, payment by the U.S. federal government of several billion dollars in reparations to African Americans for the damages inflicted on them through slavery and Jim Crow laws, and a plebiscite of all African Americans to determine their desires for citizenship. Its provisional government claims sovereignty over the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina as subjugated national territory. Robert F. Williams was its first president. The organization experienced significant decline in the early 1970s primarily due to sustained government repression, including violent raids and mass arrests that imprisoned key leaders and disrupted operations. Efforts to build institutions involved land...
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