The Black Caucus at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) advocated for the university to divest from South African related corporations, while it also worked to increase minority recruitment and provided various social, educational and cultural programming on campus. The Black Caucus launched a campaign for divestment in 1978, which continued...
The Black Caucus at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) advocated for the university to divest from South African related corporations, while it also worked to increase minority recruitment and provided various social, educational and cultural programming on campus. The Black Caucus launched a campaign for divestment in 1978, which continued for nine years - with petitions, discussions, and protests - until the University Board of Trustees finally vote in favor of divestiture in 1987. In 1979, the organization protested a group of employment ads from Cape Town, South Africa that were run in the Daily Collegian student newspaper. The name of the organization was a tribute to the Pennsylvania Black Legislative Caucus. (Source: Penn State University African American Chronicles: 1899 – 2016, 2nd Revised Edition, October 2016)
