[TO: WOA Key Contacts RE: Davis Cup Action Alert]

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Creator

Richard Lapchick; American Coordinating Committee for Equity in Sport and Society

Place Created

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Date

February 7, 1978

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Mailing to key contacts of the Washington Office on Africa about the scheduled meeting of the South African Davis Cup team and the US team from March 17-19 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Joined by the Coalition for Human Rights in South Africa, the NAACP and the Urban League, ACCESS is coordinating a massive protest of this event which contravenes many UN and OAU resolutions. Since the June 1977 Gleneagles Agreement of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, the US is now the major competitor with South Africa in sports. ACCESS is aiming for a total US sports boycott. Tennis is the only sport in which South Africa still competes for an international championship, largely the result of the support...

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Publisher

American Coordinating Committee for Equity in Sport and Society

Organization

American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society
Washington Office on Africa

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of the Washington Office on Africa.

Collection

Alan Zaslavsky Africa Collection, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections