Maybe I'm confused, but I didn't think he was sponsored by the aasf although BO tried to pass him off that way. I thought he arrived in Hawaii later. But (just remembered) isn't there a picture of Obama, Sr. and Stanley (the dad)?
Like I said, confusion is a perpetual state of my life these days.
He arrived earlier...he was already in Hawaii for several months when the first airlift landed on the mainland.
In 'Dreams' I believe it is maintained obama sr was part of that first airlift, but records show he wasn't.
Whether the aasf contributed appears to be still open to debate. The two reports in my previous comments would appear to be contradictory:
ONE - #113:Barack Obama wrote that his father “had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States,” but a list of the students who landed in New York on September 9, 1959, does not contain the name of the elder Obama. Tom Shachtman, working in the African-American Students Foundation (aasf) papers for a book on the airlifts, has found that the elder Obama came in 1959 with support from the aasf but appears to have been routed a different way as he made his way to the University of Hawaii.
TWO -#113:"...Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, an international literacy pioneer, was named in Barack Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, as a key supporter of his father's dream to come to the U.S. She helped to line up scholarships, including the one awarded by the Laubach Literacy Fund..." Barack Sr. was being paid by a key member of the Laubach Literacy Institute (LLI). The LLI had links to the Nation of Islam and embraced a Pan-African styled philosophy. Pan-Africanism is a sociopolitical world view, and philosophy, as well as a movement, which seeks to unify both native Africans and those of the African descent, as part of a "global African community”. This separatist style philosophy was embraced by Malcolm X and the NOI and is still being preached at Trinity Church in Chicago famously by former leader Rev. Wright (Obama Jr’s pastor for 20 years). LLI’s even more ambitious goal was to make the concept of sovereign nations with borders obsolete. This would be done through “peaceful social change” as stated on their website.
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The image to which you refer is back aways on this thread, it was undated, but it would appear to be taken on arrival in Hawaii and Stanley Armour is clearly there.