[To: Selected Contacts The U.S. Davis Cup team is due to meet the South African team … ]

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Creator

American Committee on Africa

Contributor

Paul Irish, George M. Houser

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

April 1977

Type of Item

Mailing

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

Mailing to Select Contacts with a cover memo and a copy of a letter to the President of the United States Tennis Association expressing opposition to South African tennis players playing the U.S. Davis Cup in Newport Beach, California. The letter explains the history of the exclusion of segregated South African sports teams from the Olympics in 1969 and then from world competition by soccer, swimming, and track and field federations. It explains that South Africa's recent "multi-national" sports policy is simply new terminology for continued racial segregation in sports. The cover memo urges others to send similar communications and to oppose the South African play at the tennis...

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Organization

American Committee on Africa

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission Africa Action (successor to the American Committee on Africa).

Collection

Alan Zaslavsky Africa Collection, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections