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The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...
Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane (26 August 1930–12 April 2013) was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist. He taught at the University of Zambia from 1967 to 1970 and in the United States at the University of Connecticut for 27 years. Magubane contributed to South Africa's post-apartheid higher education landscape in his later years.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Harlem on My Mind protests were a series of protest actions in New York, organized by the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) in early 1969 in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America.
A new documentary by Raoul Peck draws on a trove of photographs once thought lost. Released from a bank vault with no records attached, a mystery surrounds who put them there.
The Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) was a coalition of individuals, organizations, students, and unions across the United States of America who sought to end Apartheid in South Africa. [1] With local branches throughout the country, it was the primary anti-Apartheid movement in the United States.
Constructive engagement was the name given to the conciliatory foreign policy of the Reagan administration towards the apartheid regime in South Africa. Devised by Chester Crocker, Reagan's U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, the policy was promoted as an alternative to the economic sanctions and divestment from South Africa demanded by the UN General Assembly and the ...
Mar. 17—Long fascinated with the Civil Rights and anti-apartheid movements, University of Texas Permian Basin Associate Professor of History Derek Catsam, has edited "Struggle for a Free South ...
Anti-Apartheid Movement Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 – April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans , a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti- Apartheid activist.