Press release and related documents including INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY WILLIAM HOWARD, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL COUHCIL OF CHURCHES, PRESS COHFERENCE ON BANK LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA, MARCH 19, 1981; JOINT STATEMENT OPPOSING BANK LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA BY DR. LEON SULLIVAN AND DR. WILLIAM HOWARD; and PRESENT LIST OF ACTIONS ON CITIBANK. The press release says Dr. Leon Sullivan and Dr. M. William Howard will announce their joint opposition to bank lending to South Africa and combined plans to increase opposition to such loans at a press conference on March 19 at the Overseas Press Club. The press release says Dr. Sullivan is the pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, a General Motors Board Member,...
Press release and related documents including INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY WILLIAM HOWARD, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL COUHCIL OF CHURCHES, PRESS COHFERENCE ON BANK LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA, MARCH 19, 1981; JOINT STATEMENT OPPOSING BANK LOANS TO SOUTH AFRICA BY DR. LEON SULLIVAN AND DR. WILLIAM HOWARD; and PRESENT LIST OF ACTIONS ON CITIBANK. The press release says Dr. Leon Sullivan and Dr. M. William Howard will announce their joint opposition to bank lending to South Africa and combined plans to increase opposition to such loans at a press conference on March 19 at the Overseas Press Club. The press release says Dr. Sullivan is the pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, a General Motors Board Member, and the creator of the Sullivan Principles, a code of conduct for business in South Africa. Dr. Howard is the President of the National Council of Churches and serves as the Director of the Black Council of the Reformed Churches in America. The documents discusses the Sharpeville Massacre, pass laws, democratic rights, the flow of capital to South Africa by U.S. commercial and investment banks, the South African government and its agencies, legislation passed in Michigan requiring the state to put no funds in banks lending to South Africa, the United Methodist Church, the United Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, the Program to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches, Protestant and Roman Catholic church agencies, the United Methodist Board or Global Ministries, Union Theological Seminary, the American Lutheran Church, the Adrian Dominican Sisters, the Sisters or St. Joseph of Buffalo, apartheid, human rights, repression, racial oppression, Citibank Certificates of Deposit, shares, and stock. [Note: the press release on the first two pages was likely issued by itself prior to the March 19 press conference and may have also been distributed at the press conference.]
