Lena Horne said the experience and other discrimination led to her work in the civil rights movement.
VOA: special.2010.05.14
Aounit is head of the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship of Peoples,or MRAP, a Paris-based anti-discrimination group.
VOA: standard.2010.02.02
She explains that "because of that prohibition, the free movement and the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of nationality in the EU cannot be relied upon".
The International Black Awareness Day will be celebrated on 20 November in the light of this telling reflection, as a national level achievement against racial discrimination by the Unified Black Movement.