| LC control no. | n 99039102 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Massaquoi, Hans J. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Germany |
| Birth date | 1926-01-19 |
| Death date | 2013-01-19 |
| Place of birth | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Place of death | Jacksonville (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Editors Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Destined to witness, 1999: CIP t.p. (Hans J. Massaquoi) bk. jkt. (emigrated to U.S. in the 1950's; lives in New Orleans) African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Massaquoi, Hans J.; journalist, editor, publisher, autobiographer/memoirist; born 19 January 1926 in Hamburg, Germany; BA in journalism from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign; writer for Ebony; active in the civil rights movement, marched for open housing in Chicago's all-white Gage Park neighborhood; returned to Germany, reported on the representation of African Americans and ongoing racism on American military bases abroad; published first part of autobiography, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (1999); died 19 January 2013 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States) Wir waren Deutsche, 1999: title screen (Hans Jürgen Massaquoi) |
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