South African Awareness Committee
South African Awareness Committee
Location: Rochester, New York, United States
Duration: Unknown, founded about 1979, existed in 1980 and 1981
The South African Awareness Committee was a student group at the University of Rochester. The South African Awareness Committee campaigned to get the University of Rochester to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. In 1981 the South African Awareness Committee held a week-long photo exhibit entitled "Children of Apartheid",...
The South African Awareness Committee was a student group at the University of Rochester. The South African Awareness Committee campaigned to get the University of Rochester to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. In 1981 the South African Awareness Committee held a week-long photo exhibit entitled "Children of Apartheid", showed the film Six Days in Soweto, and activist/poet Dennis Brutus talked on the campus. (Source: Report on Student Anti-Apartheid Strategy Conference Held April 12, 1980, American Committee on Africa, 1980; and Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter, April 1981, American Committee on Africa.)
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