All-African Student and Faculty Union

All-African Student and Faculty Union (AASFU) organized in solidarity with African liberation struggles. It was engaged in the debate within the African-American community about which liberation movement to support in Angola and the implications of U.S. CIA support for UNITA. Beginning in 1975, AASFU pressed the Ohio State University (OSU) administration to divest from companies and funds that did business in South Africa. AASFU also supported the cultural boycott of South Africa; in 1976, the group protested an exhibition tennis match sponsored by Arthur Ashe at the OSU French Field House in which white South African tennis players competed. [Source: Joseph F. Jordan, “The 1970s: Expanding Networks,” Chapter 4 in No Easy Victories, edited by William Minter, Gail Hovey, and Charles Cobb, Jr., 2008.]