and dominant personality behind the American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters and the American-African Affairs Association was Liebman, and notably both groups had virtually identical letter-heads, the same mailing lists, the same boards, and the same address in New York, 79 Madison Avenue, which was also the headquarters of Marvin Liebman Associates. The public relations firm of Liebman Associates had been hired by the Rhodesian government to improve its image in the United States. In 1966, Yergan together with George Schuyler went on a trek across Rhodesia organized by Liebman and reported he had seen no evidence of any racism by the Rhodesian government towards the black majority. Death Yergan died on April 11, 1975, in Mount Kisco, New York, a little over three months before his eighty-third birthday. Due to his changing ideals throughout his life, he lacked all but a few close friends at the time of his death. Honors and awards Yergan was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Shaw University. In 1933, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. His papers are held at Howard University. Sources Kyle Burke Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018 David Henry Anthony, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, 2006. David Henry Anthony, "Max Yergan, Marxism and Mission during the Interwar Era in South Africa", Social Sciences and Missions (Leiden: Brill), no.22/2, 2009, pp. 257–291. Josiah Brownell "Diplomatic Lepers: The Katangan and Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the United States and the Politics of Nonrecognition" pages 209-237 from The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Volume 47, No. 2, 2014. References Activists for African-American civil rights American communists of the Stalin era 1892 births 1975 deaths Spingarn Medal winners American communists People from Raleigh, North Carolina Shaw University alumni YMCA leaders Former Marxists