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celebrating. The new nation's leaders had invited King along with several African American civil rights leaders as a gesture of solidarity. For his part, Nixon was there as part of a fact-finding tour of Africa that would highlight the continenf s strategic importance as a potential Cold War batdeground. Upon his return, King regaled his congregation at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, with a euphoric account of the moment at which the Union Jack was replaced by the flag of the new nation of Ghana. Recalling his emotional response to the Ghanaian crowd's shouts of King launched into a now familiar peroration: I could hear that old Negro spiritual once more crying out: Free at last, free at last, Great God almighty, I'm free at last. . . And everywhere we turned, we could hear it ringing out from the housetops... Freedom! King told his congregation that Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's U.S.-educated prime minister, had issued a standing invitation for African Americans to move to Ghana, contributing their skills and resources to building the new nation (i). King's presence at Ghana's independence celebration underlines the importance of the decolonization of Africa for the civil rights movement in the United States. That insight is a product of recent scholarship that has refrained the study of U.S. race relations and the I^_^^gm& Decolonization of the ^MR^^^Hfl^^ ?. African Continent
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