Boston Free South Africa Movement
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Undated, December 1984?
2 pages
History of the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) from Thanksgiving Eve 1984 when Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica, Congressman Walter Fauntroy of the District of Columbia, and Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, sat in and were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington D.C. This action came in response to heightened political repression and imprisonment of leaders in South Africa in Fall 1984. Also, the Reagan administration is no longer exerting any pressure on the South African government. So far, over 1,700 people have been arrested nationally as part of FSAM actions, two South African honorary consulates have...
History of the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) from Thanksgiving Eve 1984 when Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica, Congressman Walter Fauntroy of the District of Columbia, and Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, sat in and were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington D.C. This action came in response to heightened political repression and imprisonment of leaders in South Africa in Fall 1984. Also, the Reagan administration is no longer exerting any pressure on the South African government. So far, over 1,700 people have been arrested nationally as part of FSAM actions, two South African honorary consulates have closed in Boston and Portland (OR), and several banks have stopped selling Krugerrands in Pittsburgh, St. Paul, Miami, and Indianapolis.
English
text/pdf
Digitized by Columbia College Archives & Special Collections.
Used by permission of a former member of TransAfrica Boston Chapter.
