Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
About Organizations
Black Panther Party Black Liberation Army American Indian Movement FALN Weather Underground Earth Liberation Front Animal Liberation Front MOVE Republic of New Afrika Symbionese Liberation Army Los Macheteros United Freedom Front May 19th Communist Organization Young Lords George Jackson Brigade Students for a Democratic Society Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Industrial Workers of the World Communist Party USA Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Brown Berets Socialist Workers Party African People's Socialist Party Nation of Islam
About Republic of New Afrika
Black Government Conference & RNA Founding Declaration of Independence & Provisional Government New Bethel Incident New Bethel Acquittals Relocation toward Mississippi Organizing Jackson, Mississippi Shootout RNA-11 Prosecutions Imari Obadele’s Imprisonment The Continuing New Afrikan Prisoner Tradition
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE & PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
Declaration of Independence & Provisional Government

At its 1968 founding the Republic of New Afrika issued a Declaration of Independence and established a Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PGRNA), complete with officers, a legislature, and a president — the exiled author of Negroes with Guns, Robert F. Williams, chosen in absentia, with the Obadele brothers in leading roles.

The provisional-government framework was central to the RNA's strategy: by declaring an existing government of an already-independent nation, the organization asserted that Black Americans were not seeking rights within the United States but exercising sovereignty over their own captured nation. This national-liberation posture shaped everything that followed, including its confrontations with U.S. law enforcement.