African Activist Archive

Program for benefit concerts presented by Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, Harry Lipson, and FolkTree ConcertMakers on February 21 and 22, 1988. The Sunday concert performers were Pete Seeger, Tony Bird, The Good News Gospel Ensemble, Si Kahn, John McCutcheon, Holly Near, The Persuasions, The Pipets, Serious Bizness, and Deborah Silverstein. The Monday concert performers were Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin. Mimi Farina, The Kuumba Singers, Rod MacDonald, David Massengill, Tom Paxton, Jane Sapp, and Josh White, Jr. Proceeds went to Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid and the Fund for a Free South Africa. The printed program includes background on the performers, information on South Africa and apartheid, and profiles of Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid and its 1988 Overseers candidates (Ephraim Isaac, Evelyn Fox Keller, Ruth Messenger, Nell Irvin Painter, Michael Tanzer) as well as of the Fund for a Free South Africa. The program quotes from former South African Prime Minister Johannes Vorster, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dorothee Benz, and Harry Lipson.

African Activist Archive

Songs for a Free South Africa

HarvAid: A Benefit Concert to Inspire Harvard to Divest

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