Mailing reporting that Washington, D.C. has become the first major American City to consider municipal economic action against selected U.S. corporations involved in the support of South African apartheid. This nationally unprecedented resolution called for an end to future city business with Control Data, IBM, ITT and Motorola corporations. The resolution was introduced by Councilman Rev. James Coates, with cosponsors Marion Barry, Rev. Douglas Moore, and Rev. Jerry Moore. The mailing, signed by Ronald Walters, African Heritage Studies Association, and Robert Pruitt, Metropolitan AME Church, asks community organizations and individuals to support the proposed anti-apartheid selective...
Mailing reporting that Washington, D.C. has become the first major American City to consider municipal economic action against selected U.S. corporations involved in the support of South African apartheid. This nationally unprecedented resolution called for an end to future city business with Control Data, IBM, ITT and Motorola corporations. The resolution was introduced by Councilman Rev. James Coates, with cosponsors Marion Barry, Rev. Douglas Moore, and Rev. Jerry Moore. The mailing, signed by Ronald Walters, African Heritage Studies Association, and Robert Pruitt, Metropolitan AME Church, asks community organizations and individuals to support the proposed anti-apartheid selective boycott.
