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independence and black power organizations as having
characteristics that were consistent with the civil rights
frame.
In addition, these newspapers used this frame to
validate the work and claims of these movements. This
finding supports the theory of black channels’ assertion
that institutions indigenous to the African diaspora use
their communities’ master injustice frames to provide
information and validate the work of black social
movements.
African independence participants were more than ten
times more frequently depicted as elite than were black
power participants by the Afro-American, Amsterdam News and
Defender (see Chart 9). These articles and editorials
often described the political prowess and social stature of
African political leaders (see Photo 3). The Amsterdam
reported that the head of Ghana’s U.N. delegation received
“a vicious race-hate letter” at his $150,000 New Rochelle
home that he read to the U.N. General Assembly. The
letter, which stated “Dear Head Nigger…we don't need you
niggers here in the United States to tell us how to run our
own business,” was received with “tenseness and shock by
scores of delegates” and the following apology from a U.S.
delegation member: “the vast and overwhelming majority of
the American people is…irrevocably opposed to
Convention