The Peace Corps and the Struggle for African American Equality

Abstract

To me it is sadly depressing that so few young black Americans are ready to meet the African on his own soil; that too many would rather borrow or buy a supposedly lost identity than invest two years or more in working with Africans toward their own self-made goals. To me, working with an African as a fellow human being, not as a fellow black, has been one of my most treasured Peace Corps experiences.