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Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa
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Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa Physical Archives

Organizational Archive

Title: American Committee on Africa

Time Span: 1949 - 2001

Media: 284.07 Linear Feet; publications, correspondence, research files, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, photos, audio tapes, videos, etc.

Description: Papers, records, publications 1949-2001 of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). Includes the some material of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR). The collection includes the correspondence, project and research files of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). The collection includes publications, newsletters, photos, posters, videos...
Description: Papers, records, publications 1949-2001 of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). Includes the some material of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR). The collection includes the correspondence, project and research files of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). The collection includes publications, newsletters, photos, posters, videos and films published by ACOA and other organizations. The collection includes papers, articles and correspondence of Adotei Akwei, Michael Fleshman, Jennifer Davis, James Farmer, Donald Harrington, Mary-Louise Hooper, George M. Houser, Paul Irish, Richard Knight, Dumisani S. Kumalo, Richard Lapchick, Conrad Lynn, Frank Montero, Prexy Nesbitt, Andrew E. Norman, Joshua Nessen, Wyatt Tee Walker, Peter Weiss and many others. It also includes correspondence with numerous African liberation movement leaders. In May 2013 a finding aid American Committee on Africa records addendum, 1949-2001 was added. The collection also includes material from many other U.S. and international solidarity and anti-colonial and anti-apartheid organizations. For more information on see "No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle" by George M. Houser (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1989) and "Meeting Africa's Challenge - The Story of ACOA" by George M. Houser, ISSUE: A Quarterly Journal of Africanist Opinion, Volume VI, Numbers 2/3 Summer /Fall 1976. Donated by the American Committee on Africa.
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Housed at: Amistad Research Center

Location: Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118 , United States

Catalog/Finding Aid: http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=39

Phone: (504) 862-3222

Reference Email: reference@amistadresearchcenter.org

Related Website: http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org

Organizational Archive

Title: Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) records

Time Span: 1967-1995, primarily 1977 - 1983

Media: 9 boxes; 15.22 Linear Feet

Description: The Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) was formed in 1977 as the Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa. The committee was initially organized and sponsored by the American Committee on Africa and the Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), but become an independent organization soon after. The campaign work was initially...
Description: The Campaign to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa (COBLSA) was formed in 1977 as the Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa. The committee was initially organized and sponsored by the American Committee on Africa and the Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), but become an independent organization soon after. The campaign work was initially directed by ACOA staff member Prexy Nesbitt and CACL member Gene Jones and involved over 48 cooperating organizations in many cities and states across the United States. COLBSA's purpose was to link the efforts of national and local anti-apartheid groups, churches, unions, university and colleges, and community groups in pressuring United States banks to end all loans to the South African government, its agencies, and corporations doing business there. COLBSA was initially located in the New York office of ACOA and then relocated to Washington, D.C. During Carole Collins' tenure as national coordinator (1981-circa 1983) COLBSA was permanently removed from ACOA’s offices. Individuals coordinating the work included Prexy Nesbitt (1977-1979), Dumisani Kumalo (1979-1981), and Carole Collins (1981-1983). Donated by Carole Collins.
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Housed at: Amistad Research Center

Location: Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118 , United States

Catalog/Finding Aid: http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=307

Phone: (504) 862-3222

Reference Email: reference@amistadresearchcenter.org

Related Website: http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org

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