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  2. Operation Crossroads Africa - Wikipedia

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    Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working to build links between North America and Africa. It was founded in 1958 by Presbyterian clergyman James Herman Robinson. OCA annually sends groups of young volunteers from North America to work on projects in Africa.

  3. James Herman Robinson - Wikipedia

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    James Herman Robinson (January 24, 1907 – November 6, 1972) was an African-American clergyman and humanitarian, best known as the founder of Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA), a cross-cultural exchange program considered a forerunner of the Peace Corps. [2]

  4. Operation Crossroads - Wikipedia

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    Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect ...

  5. Revealed: The U.S. military's 36 code-named operations in Africa

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    Yahoo News has assembled a list of three dozen code-named operations across Africa. While the Pentagon has acknowledged the names, locations and purposes of some of these operations, others are ...

  6. Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith - Wikipedia

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    Smythe-Haith also worked with James Robinson, the founder of Operations Crossroads Africa, in 1958. She helped launch on a student-exchange program between Africa and the United States and also worked with college admission officers to help Nigerian students attend Harvard and other universities through the African Scholarship Program. [3]

  7. Spike in Asia, Africa migrants turns Amazon jungle outpost ...

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    Focused on migrants destined for the U.S. and Canada, this year's operation showed a "marked increase" in migrants from Asia and Africa, particularly from China, which was the third most popular ...

  8. South African social safety net at crossroads as ANC support ...

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    South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), fighting to extend its 30-year grip on power in elections this month, would like to cast the government programmes that support Dalene Raiters and ...

  9. John Kinard - Wikipedia

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    In 1966, Kinard was appointed assistant pastor at John Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Washington, D.C. [7]. After leaving Operations Crossroads Africa, Kinard joined the Office of Economic Opportunity, [1] but quickly moved to the United States Department of State where he worked as an interpreter and escort for visiting African government officials.