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African American Students Foundation


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    • African-American Students Federation
    • AASF (Foundation)
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    • Sources

      • found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Papers of Jackie Robinson, 1934-2001(African-American Students Federation; also African-American Students Foundation; as trustee Robinson sponsored African students at American colleges and universities)
      • found: African American Students Foundation (Cora Weiss) collection, Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections:Box A, folder 1: Mrs. Peter [Cora] Weiss form letter, December 9, 1960 (African American Students Foundation, Inc.; 477 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York; Board of Directors includes Jackie Robinson) undated letterhead (African American Students Foundation, Suite 3308, 375 Park Avenue, New York 22, New York); Box A, folder 17: letter from Jackie Robinson to Mr. Nelson, July 12, 1960 (we in the African American Students Foundation) envelop postmarked Nov. 2, 1960 (Jackie Robinson, African-American Students Foundation, Inc., 20th Floor, 477 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York)
      • found: Jackie Robinson: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 2002:pages 2 & 5 (African American Students Foundation) page 11 (Box 3: African American Students Foundation, Project Airlift Africa)
      • found: Papers of the NAACP, supplement to Part 16, Board of Directors File, 1956-1965: Guide compiled by Randolph Boehm, 1996:page 13 (Reel 10, frames 1-224: Robinson, Jackie, 1956-1965; Major topics: ... African-American Students Foundation; African students in the United States; ..) page 25 (index entry: African American Students Federation--10:0001)
      • found: Shachtman, Tom. Airlift to America, 2009:page 7 (William X. Scheinman formed the African American Students Foundation (AASF); between 1959 and 1963, AASF brought nearly 800 East African students to the United States)
      • found: WorldCat, 23 October 2013(access points: African-American Students Federation; African American Students Foundation (for William X. Scheinman papers,1952-1999, at Hoover Institutiion on War, Revolution and Peace))
      • found: Airlift to America (airlifttoamerica.org) website, viewed October 24, 2013:Selected Primary Source Documents from the files of The African American Students Foundation pdf (Certificate of Incorporation of African-American Students Foundation, Inc., filed with State of New York, September 5, 1958)
      • found: African Activist Archive (Michigan State University) website, 23 October 2013:(African American Students Foundation; 1959-1963; New York, New York)
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      • 2003-04-14: new
      • 2013-11-12: revised
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