Max Yergan
American activist (1892–1975)
📍 Raleigh, North Carolina USA
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Max Yergan was an American activist notable for being a Baptist missionary for the YMCA, then a Communist working with Paul Robeson, and finally a staunch anti-Communist who complimented the government of apartheid-era South Africa and colonial dominion over Africa, particularly in the case of Portuguese Angola. He was a mentor of Govan Mbeki, who later achieved distinction in the African National Congress. He served as the second president of the National Negro Congress, a coalition of hundreds of African-American organizations created in 1935 by religious, labor, civic and fraternal leaders
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