| Zusammenfassung: | At a time when the American Federal Government was at times apathetic to the American Civil Rights Movement and Southern States were outrightly hostile and much more importantly the outcome of the struggle was very much in doubt, the West African print media, just emerging out of the era of colonial control, was a major cheerleading block for African Americans. Even though interested in and paying attention to other issues of global and local (West African) interests, the press in West Africa paid particular attention to the unfolding scenario in the United States where African Americans, an oppressed minority, staked their claim to a place under the American sun. The press covered carefully, and oftentimes in depth, the struggles of those they referred to as 'their brothers and sisters', a reference to racial and cultural affinity. The sympathies of the Anglophone West African press were not in doubt as their criticism of the American governments and those they referred to as white racists, was trenchant and the uncritical celebration of whatever they perceived or chose to interpret as victory for African Americans was telling. This is the subject of this essay. Depending essentially on primary sources, this writer adopts the narrative style in this essay.
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