THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 19, 1963

• Moscow protest - Red Square demonstration
• African students - racial discrimination - racism

The front page has a two column heading: "500 Africans Fight Police In Moscow in Race Protest" with photo. (see images) 
Complete with all 68 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.

Background: On December 18, 1963, between 500 and 700 African students staged an unprecedented, spontaneous march through Moscow's Red Square to protest racial discrimination and the suspicious death of Edmund Assare-Addo, a 29-year-old Ghanaian medical student whose body was found near Khimki. Believing Assare-Addo had been murdered over an interracial relationship—contrary to official Soviet reports claiming he froze to death while intoxicated—the protesters carried placards reading "Moscow: Second Alabama" and "Stop Killing Africans," demanding guarantees of personal safety and a thorough investigation from the Kremlin. This event carried immense historical significance because it shattered the Soviet Union's carefully cultivated propaganda image as a harmonious, anti-racist sanctuary for the Global South during the Cold War. By exposing deep-seated racial tensions and Soviet intolerance for public dissent, the demonstration severely embarrassed Soviet leadership, strained diplomatic relations with newly independent African nations, and revealed the stark gap between the USSR's official anti-imperialist rhetoric and the everyday realities faced by foreign students behind the Iron Curtain.