David McAdams Africa collection

1959-1970

David McAdams was an African American former social worker who became director of the Ford Foundation's Institut Politique Congolais in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in 1961, and later director of the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast (1966). The David McAdams Africa collection primarily consists of printed material, reports, articles, news summaries, news clippings, and press releases, many of which are in French, on the former Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), the Ivory Coast, and Angola. Additionally there is some correspondence. Some papers relate to Patrice Lumumba and his organization, the Mouvement National Congolais, and others concern Moise Tshombe, the Katanga Secession, and the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Republic of the Congo. The collection also contains materials on the early independence movement in Angola in the early 1960s; Portuguese colonialism; and various Angolan organizations in exile, including the General League of Angolan Workers, the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), Roberto Holden's Government of the Republic of Angola in Exile, and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). Documents related to the Ivory Coast consist of vocational education materials, printed matter, and other training materials for a conference of regional Peace Corps directors held in Abidjan in 1967.