RACIST OPPRESSORS NOT WELCOME! STOP THE U.S-SOUTH AFRICAN TENNIS GAMES

Creator

Fullerton Faculty Forum - Cal-State; Frank Shuford Defense Committee; History Graduate Student Association - UCI; History Undergraduate Student Association - UCI; Left Information Project - UCI; Socialist Organizing Committee; Committee to Stop the U.S.-South Africa Tennis Match

Place Created

Los Angeles, California, United States

Date

Undated, about March or early April 1977

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

2 pages

Description

Leaflet advertising a demonstration in Newport Beach, California on April 16, 1977 and picketing on April 15 and April 17 against South African participation in the Davis Cup tennis tournament. The leaflet says the U.S. is one of the last remaining countries willing to play South Africa, endorsing the apartheid system. It discusses links to South Africa by U.S. corporations, NATO, the U.S. defense establishment, and the CIA. The leaflet says the main profiteers from South African segregation and oppression live in New York, Chicago and Orange County. • Why are South African sports segregated? • Why is the U.S. welcoming a team from South Africa? • Why demonstrate against a tennis...

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Publisher

Committee to Stop the U.S.-South Africa Tennis Match

Organization

Committee to Stop the U.S.-South Africa Tennis Match

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of Robert Edgar, a former member of the Committee to Stop the U.S.-South Africa Tennis Match.

Collection

Carol B. Thompson and Bud Day Papers on Southern Africa, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections