Dennis Brutus Defense Committee - Western Mass
Dennis Brutus Defense Committee - Western Mass
Alternate Names: Western Massachusetts Dennis Brutus Defense Committee
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Duration: Fall 1981 - Unknown, existed in 1983
Dennis Brutus Defense Committee - Western Mass was part of the campaign against the deportation from the United States of South African exile, poet, and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus. The organization worked with the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee in Chicago, Illinois but operated quite autonomously from it. The group in Amherst formed when...
Dennis Brutus Defense Committee - Western Mass was part of the campaign against the deportation from the United States of South African exile, poet, and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus. The organization worked with the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee in Chicago, Illinois but operated quite autonomously from it. The group in Amherst formed when Dennis Brutus was a Visiting Professor at Amherst College. It included people from the University of Massachsuetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) and Hampshire College, as well as Amherst College.
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