The Board of Directors of TransAfrica The African-American Lobby for Africa and the Caribbean requests the pleasure of your company at the Eleventh Annual TransAirica Dinner Saturday , May Twenty-Eighth Seven o'clock in the evening The Washington Hilton Hotel DOD Host Danny Glover DOD Guest Speaker Her Excellency Dame R. Nita Barrow Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations DOD Cocktails - Seven o'clock Dinner - Eight o'clock
R.S. V.P. card enclosed Black tie optional Board oi Directors
The Honorable Richard Gordon Hatcher The Honorable Robert Farrell Marc Stepp Chairman Dr. Dorothy Height The Honorable Percy Sutton Dr. Sylvia Hill Dr. James Turner The Honorable Hannah Atkins Gayla Cook Isaacs Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker Mona Bailey Dr. Willard Johnson The Honorable Maxine Waters Harry Belafonte William Lucy Robert White Reverend Charles Cobb Howard Manning Courtland Cox Dr. Leslie McLemore Randall Robinson The Honorable Mervyn Dymally Dr, Calvin Sinnette Executive Director
Sponsors Airican and Caribbean Diplomatic Corps
His Excellency Jose Luis Fernandez Lopes His Excellency Mohamed Sahnoun His Excellency Sir William Douglas Cape Verde Algeria Barbados
His Excellency Keith Johnson His Excellency Asterius Hyera His Excellency Alhaji Hamzat Ahmadu Jamaica Tanzania Nigeria
His Excellency Habib Ben Yahia His Excellency Edward Laing His Excellency Ousman Ahmadou Sallah Tunisia Belize Gambia
His Excellency Chitmansing Jesseramsing His Excellency Edouard Kadigiri His Excellency J.R.P. Dumas Mauritius Burundi Trinidad and Tobago
His Excellency Dr. Cedric Hilburn Grant His Excellency W.T. Van Tonder His Excellency Aloys Uwimana Guyana Lesotho Rwanda
His Excellency Edmund Hawkins Lake Her Excellency Margaret E. McDonald His Excellency Benjamin Bounkoulou Antigua/Barbuda Bahamas Congo
His Excellency Christian Lingama·Toleque His Excellency Abdullahi A. Addou His Excellency Oumarou G. Youssoufou Central African Republic Somalia Organization of African Unity
His Excellency Joseph Diatta Her Excellency Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya His Excellency Joao Clemente Baena Niger Uganda Soares OAS His Excellency Mahamat Ali Adoum His Excellency McDonald Phillip Benjamin Chad Dominica Mr. Ramon Sanchez-Parodi Cuba His Excellency Leon M. Rajaobelina His Excellency Charles Gomis Madagascar Cote D' lvoire Mr. Ludunge Kadahi Chiri Mwami Zaire His Excellency Valeriano Ferrao Her Excellency Eugenia A. Wordsworth Mozambique Stevenson Mr. Neo Mnumzana Liberia ANC His Excellency Serara T. Ketlogetswe Botswana His Excellency Eduardo A. Leon Mr. Johnson P. Mlambo Dominican Republic PAC His Excellency Falilou Kane Senegal His Excellency Sahr Matturi Mr. Helmut Angula Sierra Leone SWAPO His Excellency Dr. Joseph Edsel Edmunds Saint Lucia Sponsors
The Honorable William Clay The Honorable Edolphus Towns The Honorable George Dalley and The Honorable Cardiss Collins The Honorable Alan Wheat Mrs. Dalley The Honorable John Conyers The Honorable Marion Barry The Honorable Arthur Fletcher and The Honorable George Crockett The Honorable Andrew Young Mrs. Fletcher The Honorable Ronald Dellums The Honorable Franklin Williams The Honorable Ernest Green The Honorable Julian Dixon The Honorable Samuel Adams Ms. J.C. Hayward The Honorable Mervyn Dymally The Honorable Charles Nelson The Honorable Benjamin Hooks The Honorable Michael Espy The Honorable John Reinhardt Mr. James Hudson The Honorable Walter Fauntroy The Honorable 0 . Rudolph Aggrey Mr. John Jacob The Honorable Floyd Flake The Honorable Charles James The Honorable James Joseph The Honorable Harold Ford The Honorable Mabel Smythe Dr. Joyce Ladner The Honorable William Gray The Honorable Wilbert LeMelle Reverend Joseph Lowery The Honorable Augustus Hawkins The Honorable Ulric Haynes, Jr. Mrs. Harriet Michel The Honorable Charles Hayes The Honorable Anne Forrester Mr. Al Nellum The Honorable Mickey Leland The Honorable Walter Carrington The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton The Honorable John Lewis Mr. Arthur Ashe Dr. Alvin Poussaint The Honorable Kweisi Mfume The Honorable Mary Frances Berry Ms. Renee Poussaint The Honorable Major Owens The Honorable Julian Bond The Honorable Sterling Tucker The Honorable Charles Rangel Mr. Wiley Branton Mr. Robert Washington The Honorable Gus Savage Miss Maureen Bunyan Mr. Eddie Williams The Honorable Louis Stokes Mr. Vincent and Mrs. Diane Cohen TransAfrica, incorporated July 1, 1977, has been formed for the purpose of informing and organizing popular opinion in the United States to advocate policies and practices both governmental and nongovernmental that will help to achieve a more progressive United States foreign policy toward the nations of Africa and the Caribbean, and the peo ple of African descent generally throughout the world, con sistent with the responsible fulfillment of an enlightened foreign policy.