African Activist Archive

Mailing issued as part of a campaign for Harvard University to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. The mailing includes a list and brief bios of 1988 candidates for the Board of Overseers, including Ephraim Isaac, Evelyn Fox Keller, Ruth Messinger, Nell Irvin Painter, and Michael Tanzer. The mailing includes newspaper articles "BOARD OF OVERSEERS Lobbying One's Own," "Board May Vote on Divestment" by Mark M. Colodny, and "Bok: Board Should Not Present Vote" and "Divestment Vote Delayed" by Emily M. Bernstein. The mailing also includes "Some Bad Reasons Not to Divest" by the Harvard-Radcliffe Southern Africa Solidarity Committee. The mailing discusses Harvard University President Bok, Harvard Corporation, Daniel Steiner, Robert Shenton, Joan T. Bok, Samuel C. Butler, Gay W. Seidman, Frances Fitzgerald, Andrew Heiskell, Consuela M. Washington, a pro-divestment platform, the Sullivan Principles, fair labor practices, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Luthuli, computer, communications, transportation, energy, IBM, the City of New York, Fortune 500 companies, disinvestment, New York City Council, the Anti-apartheid Resolution adopted by the National League of Cities, and the Sanctions Working Group.

African Activist Archive

1988 OVERSEERS CANDIDATES

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