Tag: ‘Amadou’s Army’
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‘AMADOU’S ARMY’ HAS NEW RECRUIT IN WINNIE MANDELA By MICHAEL O. ALLEN SUNDAY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, December 19, 1999 The Rev. Al Sharpton’s efforts to recruit people for “Amadou’s Army” – a group of New Yorkers who will go to Albany for the Amadou Diallo murder trial – got an unexpected boost yesterday from Winnie Mandela. Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela, arrived at…