Anti-Apartheid Coalition (Occidental College)
Anti-Apartheid Coalition (Occidental College)
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Duration: Unknown, late 1970s? - Unknown, late 1980s?
The Anti-Apartheid Coalition was a student group at Occidental College (OC). In the 1985-1986 school year, it had some 300 members out of a total college population of 1,600. The organization campaigned to get OC to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The organization worked to build a cross-state alliance with other anti-apartheid...
The Anti-Apartheid Coalition was a student group at Occidental College (OC). In the 1985-1986 school year, it had some 300 members out of a total college population of 1,600. The organization campaigned to get OC to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The organization worked to build a cross-state alliance with other anti-apartheid organizations in California; members visited and spoke to the students at the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); and others. (Source: Phyl Terry, a former co-chair of the Anti-Apartheid Coalition.)
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