Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)
From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries worldwide. Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumédiène, made Algiers a haven for activists fighting against colonial and racial oppression. Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established his base of operations there for his guerrilla activities in Africa. The African-American leader Eldridge Cleaver made it the international headquarters of the Black Panther Party. During this period, Algiers was known as "The Mecca of Revolutionaries."
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Che Guevara
Nelson Mandela
Houari Boumédiène
Eldridge Cleaver
Patrice Lumumba
Kathleen Cleaver
Miriam Makeba
Fidel Castro
Yasser Arafat
Johnny Makatini
M'Hamed Yazid
Ahmed Kaïd
Álvaro Holden Roberto
John F. Kennedy
Antonio Cubillo
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Oscar Monteiro
Kwame Ture
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe
Apolônio de Carvalho
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
Nâzim Boudjenah
