Alphaeus Hunton Jr. (1903–1970) was a civil rights activist. He was executive director of the

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Life

He was born on 18 September 1903, in Atlanta. His family moved to Brooklyn. He graduated from Howard University, and Harvard University. He taught at Howard University. He was a leader in the National Negro Congress. He edited ''New Africa,'' and ''Spotlight on Africa''. He contributed to the ''Daily Worker'' and ''Freedom.'' In 1941, he was accused of being a communist by the U.S. House of Representatives'

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. In 1943, he left Howard and joined the

. In 1960 he moved to

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. He moved to

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, to work with

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in ...

, on his ''

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''. In 1967, he moved to

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. He wrote for ''Mayibuye''. He died on January 13, 1970.

Works

* ''Decision in Africa: Sources of Current Conflict.'' New York: International Publishers, 1957.

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