ABSTRACT
In the May 1960 issue of The Crisis an editorial entitled "Rising Tide of Color appeared". The revolt against "race prejudice and discrimination" was taking place on many fronts: at North Carolina lunch counters; in the African empires of the Portuguese, British, French, and Belgians; and in the apartheid system of South Africa. A riot in the Congo, an election in Nigeria, and a "sit-in" in North Carolina affect the future of mankind. American Negroes take courage and hope from an independent Ghana and Guinea; revolts in the Congo stiffen the resolve of Africans in South Africa. Everywhere the colored peoples are resolved that the arrogance and the domination of the whites must go. If the tone and temper of the African-American criticisms and suggestions differed somewhat from the Truman years, there was no denying that throughout the 1950s American blacks continued to believe that the domination of whites must go, both at home and abroad.
