The Children of South Africa Need Freedom Not Bullets

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Place Created

Seattle, Washington, United States

Date

June 16, 1990

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Apparently a leaflet handed out at the Soweto Day march on June 16, 1990. The leaflet recalls the South African police and military opening fire on black school children nonviolently protesting apartheid education in this day in 1976. It also points out that, while Nelson Mandela has been released from prison, he is not yet free. The leaflet asks people to urge their Congressperson to support comprehensive mandatory sanctions against South Africa. It also asks people to get involved in a local anti-apartheid project: the Shell Boycott Campaign to pressure Shell to stop supplying the South African military and police and withdraw from the country, the Seattle-Daliwe Sister Community Project...

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Organization

American Friends Service Committee
Seattle Shell Boycott Campaign
Task Force on Southern Africa, Church Council of Greater Seattle

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of former members of the Church Council of Greater Seattle Task Force on Southern Africa

Collection

Selma Waldman collection on the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid (SCCA), Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections