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The colony of Kenya seemed worlds away from the United States but from its inception one could travel there by ship from New York in about five weeks.1 Though they were a bedraggled and persecuted minority, it was not long before African Americans began to follow in the footsteps of Theodore Roosevelt and others from their erstwhile homeland made the long trek across the Atlantic—though unlike their Euro-American counterparts, they faced insuperable barriers when seeking to land at Mombasa.
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A. Barton Hepburn, The Story of an Outing, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913, 40.
Booker T. Washington to Editor, Colored American, Tuly 20, 1899, in Louis Harlan, ed., The Booker T Washington Papers, Volume 5, 1899–1900, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976, 165.
P. Godfrey Okoth, United States of America’s Foreign Policy Toward Kenya, 1952–1969, Nairobi: Gideon S. Were Press, 1992, 25.
Patrick J. Gilpin and Marybeth Gasman, Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003, 80.
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Horne, G. (2009). A British Colony?. In: Mau Mau in Harlem?. Contemporary Black History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101043_3
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