Archie Singham

Fidel Castro with Archie Singham

Archie Singham was the father of Roy Singham. He died in 1991.

Obituary

Verbatim from a New York Times obituary titled "Archibald Singham, 58, Professor And Authority on the Caribbean" dated March 14, 1991:

Archibald W. Singham, an authority on the Caribbean and a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, died on Tuesday at Tisch Hospital in the New York University Medical Center. He was 58 years old and lived in Brooklyn.

He died of a brain tumor, his wife, the former Shirley Hune, said.

Dr. Singham was a founding member of the social sciences faculty at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where he taught from 1960 to 1970. He also taught at the University of Michigan, Howard University in Washington and the University of Manchester in England before joining CUNY in 1978.

He was a researcher and consultant to a number of United Nations agencies and was known for his work on nonaligned and third world countries. He was also a senior fellow at the Center on the Study of Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College and the first scholar in residence at the New York State Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence in Albany in 1990 and 1991.

He wrote several books, including "Nonalignment in an Age of Alignments" (Zed Books Ltd., 1986) and "Namibian Independence: A Global Reponsibility" (Lawrence Hill & Company, 1985), with his wife, and "The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity" (Yale University Press, 1968). He was also a member of the editorial board of The Nation magazine.

Dr. Singham, who was born in Burma of Sri Lankan parents, was educated in Sri Lanka and graduated from Wesleyan University. He received a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Besides his wife, Shirley, who is the associate provost of Hunter College, he is survived by a son, Roy, of Chicago; a daughter, Shanti, of Williamstown, Mass., and three grandchildren.

US Peace Council

As at March, 1982, the following took active roles in the Communist Party USA initiated U.S. Peace Council - founding, speaking or listed as workshop leaders:

• Mark Shanahan, CNFMP
• Sarah Staggs, Chicago Peace Council
• Rep. Irving Stolberg, Connecticut
• David Cortright, SANE
• Rev. William Hogan, Clergy and Laity Concerned
• Terry Provance, AFSC
• Michael Myerson, executive director - a long-time functionary of the New York State Communist Party USA.
• Erica Foldy, CNFMP
• Frank Chapman, AFSC
• Archie Singham, The Nation, editorial board
• Betsy Sweet, WILPF
• Rep. Saundra Graham, Massachusetts
• Miriam Friedlander and Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, New York City Council members
• Edwin Vargas, Jr., vice president, Connecticut Federation of Teachers, Hartford, Connecticut

Socialist Scholars Conference 1990

The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:

The Impact of Changes in Eastern Europe on the Economics and Political Movements in Africa and Latin America

• Archie Singham, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
• Gerald Horne, Black Studies, University of California SB
• Tim Hector, Chair, Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement