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Leaflet issued as part of a campaign to get the University of Michigan to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. A shanty has been erected to represent the poverty and inhumanity of South African Apartheid, a system which denies the most basic human and political rights to 23 million Black Africans simply because of the color of their skin. Because Black South Africans cannot legally own houses in "white areas," which constitute 87% of the land, they are forced to live in makeshift shacks such as this one in order to be close to relatives who are "legally" working in the cities. The leaflet says this shanty will be staffed 24 hours a day for the next two weeks (March 20 to April 4) to publicize the upcoming weeks of action against racism and Apartheid. We also want to publicize tangible ways in which the Univ. of Michigan can help to oppose Apartheid. People are invited to help staff the shanty and join the Freedom March, April 4, 10:30 a.m. on the Diag. *Give an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela *Divest the $500,000 still remaining in corporations operating in S. Africa

African Activist Archive

SHANTYTOWN, ANN ARBOR

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