A Concert to Celebrate Nelson Mandela's 71st Birthday

Creator

Friends of SOMAFCO; Call to Conscience Network; Department of African and African-America Studies (Temple University); Institute of African and African-American Affairs; Martin Luther King Ant-Apartheid Coalition; Call to Conscience; Pan-African Studies Community Education Program

Place Created

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date

Undated, about early July 1989

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Leaflet advertising a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 71st birthday and Gladfelter Hall, Temple University on Saturday, July 22, 1989. The leaflet says Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress of South Africa, has been imprisoned for 27 years in South Africa; let's come together in a celebration of his life and the struggle he spearheads. The leaflet says the concert features the Melodic Sounds of The Mean Machine Band and invited speakers from the African National Congress (ANC) and the Southwest Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The leaflet says donation $5 to aid the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO). The leaflet says the convert is sponsored by Friends...

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Publisher

Call to Conscience; Friends of SOMAFCO; Department of African and African-America Studies (Temple University); Institute of African and African-American Affairs; Martin Luther King Ant-Apartheid Coalition; Pan-African Studies Community Education Program

Organization

Call to Conscience Network
Friends of SOMAFCO
Martin Luther King Anti-Apartheid Coalition

Coverage Africa

Namibia
South Africa
Tanzania

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of Friends of SOMAFCO; of Jerry Herman, a former member of the Call to Conscience Network; and Catherine Blunt, a former member of the Martin Luther King Anti-Apartheid Coalition.

Collection

Friends of SOMAFCO collection