Judge Overrules Immigration Service, Gives Asylum to Poet from Zimbabwe

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Creator

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Place Created

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date

September 1983

Type of Item

Article

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Reprint of an article n The Chronicle of Higher Education on Dennis Brutus by the Dennis Brutus Defense Committee. The article says a U. S. immigration judge last week granted political asylum to Dennis Brutus, the black professor of English at Northwestern University whom the Immigration and Naturalization Service wanted to deport. Mr. Brutus is a poet and activist who has devoted much of his life to fighting apartheid in South Africa. Mr. Brutus, who is credited with inspiring the movement that has kept segregated South African athletic teams out of Olympic competition since 1964, said he was afraid that if he returned to Zimbabwe he would be assassinated by South African agents. Mr. Brutus...

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Publisher

Dennis Brutus Defense Committee

Organization

Dennis Brutus Defense Committee

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of Dennis Brutus.

Collection

Carole Collins Africa Collection, Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections