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Title: Southern Africa Collective collection
Time Span: About 1965-1983
Media: 3 linear feet
Description: Group of anti-apartheid activists and researchers. Contributed regularly to the journal SOUTHERN AFRICA and constituted the majority of its administrative staff. This monthly journal was published in New York by the Southern Africa Committee from 1965-1983. Research files consist mostly of manuscripts of articles for SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1965-1983....
Description: Group of anti-apartheid activists and researchers. Contributed regularly to the journal SOUTHERN AFRICA and constituted the majority of its administrative staff. This monthly journal was published in New York by the Southern Africa Committee from 1965-1983. Research files consist mostly of manuscripts of articles for SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1965-1983. Included are correspondence, leaflets, petitions, mimeographed reports, printed matter, and memorabilia of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, a group of employees of the Polaroid Corporation in the United States opposed to the involvement of the company in the Pass Laws in South Africa. Research files also include some correspondence and printed matter, a mailing list, and miscellaneous administrative documents of the Southern Africa Collective. Subject files consist of magazine and newspaper clippings from South Africa, the United States, and Great Britain on the political and economic situation in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division. Posters transferred to Art and Artifacts Division. Audiotapes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
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Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Location: The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801 , United States
Catalog/Finding Aid: http://www.nypl.org/archives/3984
Phone: (212) 491-2200
Related Website: https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg