Committee for Divestment
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration: Early 1979 - Unknown
The Committee for Divestment was an anti-apartheid organization at the University of Pittsburgh. The Committee for Divestment campaigned to get the University of Pittsburgh to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. The Committee for Divestment worked with the United People's Campaign against Apartheid and Racism (UPCAAR)...
The Committee for Divestment was an anti-apartheid organization at the University of Pittsburgh. The Committee for Divestment campaigned to get the University of Pittsburgh to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. The Committee for Divestment worked with the United People's Campaign against Apartheid and Racism (UPCAAR) to oppose loans to South Africa by Provident Bank. (Source: STOP BANK LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA, United People's Campaign against Apartheid and Racism, March 1979?; and the newsletter Southern Africa Solidarity, Spring 1979, International Socialist Organization.)
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