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Title: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility records

Time Span: 1966 - 2011 (South Africa 1966 - 1996)

Media: 137.5 linear ft. (110 records boxes)

Description: The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) grew out of an interest in socially responsible investing that arose from concerns of clergy that churches might be profiting from the Vietnam War through their investments. In 1973, the Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments (ICSRI) merged with the Corporate Information...
Description: The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) grew out of an interest in socially responsible investing that arose from concerns of clergy that churches might be profiting from the Vietnam War through their investments. In 1973, the Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments (ICSRI) merged with the Corporate Information Center (CIC) to form the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). Subseries IV.6: South Africa, 1966-1996 contains records related to programs and issues coordinated through the ICCR, which originate from both Program Directors and Executive Directors. There is extensive documentation of the ICCR's work on issues related to apartheid South Africa.
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Housed at: Columbia University Libraries, Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, Human Rights Organization Archives

Location: 535 West 114th Street, 6th Floor, New York, New York, 10027 , United States

Catalog/Finding Aid: http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8429461

Phone: 212-854-3630

Reference Email: chrdr@columbia.edu

Related Website: http://library.columbia.edu/locations/chrdr.html

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Title: George M. Houser Africa collection

Time Span: 1950s - 1999

Media: 10 boxes, documents, correspondence, photographs, posters, audio material

Description: Covers most countries of Africa, and includes notes on George M. Houser’s many trips to Africa (such as 1960, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1973 (Guinea-Bissau), 1974, 1975/6 (Lusaka, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde), 1978, 1979 (Western Sahara and Algeria), 1981 (taped), 1983, 1989 (Namibia). Major organizations covered include American Committee...
Description: Covers most countries of Africa, and includes notes on George M. Houser’s many trips to Africa (such as 1960, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1973 (Guinea-Bissau), 1974, 1975/6 (Lusaka, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde), 1978, 1979 (Western Sahara and Algeria), 1981 (taped), 1983, 1989 (Namibia). Major organizations covered include American Committee on Africa (ACOA), The Africa Fund, Africa Action, American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, and International Defence and Aid Fund. Houser was a founder of ACOA and served as Executive Director from 1955-1981. Houser was Executive Director of ACOA's associate organization The Africa Fund from its founding in 1966 to 1981. ACOA and The Africa were based in New York City but worked nationally in the country and with organizations with similar goals in other countries as well as with liberation movements and leaders in many African countries. The collection includes audio of interviews Houser conducted in South Africa in 1954 with Z.K. Matthews, Kasavello Goonam, Walter Sisulu, Manilal Gandhi, Patrick Duncan and Chief Albert Luthuli. Some of the many correspondents include Julius Nyerere, Joshua Nkomo, Kanyama Chiume, Martin Luther King, Victoria Chitepo, Mary-Louise Hooper, Piet Koornhof (South African Ambassador), George W. Shepherd, and David H. Anthony. Also included are 12 original cassette tapes of interviews by George Houser and Herbert Shore with African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu recorded September 20-26 1995, which formed the basis for the book I will go singing : Walter Sisulu speaks of his life and the struggle for freedom in South Africa / in conversation with George M. Houser & Herbert Shore (Cape Town : Robben Island Museum in association with the Africa Fund, New York, 2001). This collection forms part of the African Activist Archive collections. Material deposited by George M. Houser.
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Housed at: Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections

Location: 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824 , United States

Catalog/Finding Aid: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat09242a&AN=msuc.b9826798x&site=eds-live&authtype=ip,guest&custid=s8364774&groupid=main&profile=eds

Phone: 517-353-8700

Related Website: https://lib.msu.edu/murray-hong-spc

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