African Activist Archive

Contents: Attendance • 1. Opening savings account • 2. Gladstone Ntlabati (studying at Yale Divinity School) doing speaking on behalf of the Africa Defense and Aid Fund • 3. John Harris, white South African who had been given the death penalty for planting a bomb in the Johannesburg railway station, due to be executed shortly. • 4. George Houser reported on the visa problem of Professor M.B. Mbatha, now teaching anthropology and sociology at Smith College. • 5. Other South Africans are willing to speak on behalf of the Africa Defense and Aid Fund. • 6. Meeting of the staff with William Landis and Mark Cohen about tax exemption for the Defense and Aid Fund • 7. Beard members whose terms expire this year • 8. Meeting on April 1 of American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa to decide on its future • 9. Discussion of the National Conference on the "South African Crisis and American Action" postponed • 10. Andrew Norman will obtain information about how stockholders might challenge a corporation's South African investments at annual meetings and will contact F.A.O. Schwarz, Jr. • The minutes mention the South African State President, clemency, the Immigration Department, the State Department, the Department of Immigration, lawyers, Magnus Gunther, John Shingler, Elizabeth (Lewin) Franklin, Nelson Bengston, Collin Gonze, Jim Robinson, Elsie Carrington, Winifred Courtney, James Farmer, Donald S. Harrington, Clarence Jones, David Jones, Farrell Jones, Elizabeth Landis, Stanley Levison, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Hugh H. Smythe, Hope Stevens, Peter Weiss, James Baldwin, Congressman Donald M. Fraser, Professor Richard Stevens, the African Center at Lincoln University, Ronald Segal, and the Africa series of Penguin.

African Activist Archive

STEERING COMMITTEE MINUTES: March 29, 1965

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