Copy of an article by Josh Nessan, national student coordinator for the American Committee on Africa, that appeared in the Guardian (New York) newspaper on the history of the U.S. student anti-apartheid movement, focused on the first half of the 1980s. Nessan says that, following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Students for a Democratic Society organized a sit-in at Chase Manhattan Bank opposing its loans to South Africa. More than a decade later, the Soweto student uprising sparked a U.S. student movement focuses on divestment, and the 1977 police murder of Steve Biko gave it further impetus. The article discusses Columbia University, National Divestment Protest Day, the United Democratic...
Copy of an article by Josh Nessan, national student coordinator for the American Committee on Africa, that appeared in the Guardian (New York) newspaper on the history of the U.S. student anti-apartheid movement, focused on the first half of the 1980s. Nessan says that, following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Students for a Democratic Society organized a sit-in at Chase Manhattan Bank opposing its loans to South Africa. More than a decade later, the Soweto student uprising sparked a U.S. student movement focuses on divestment, and the 1977 police murder of Steve Biko gave it further impetus. The article discusses Columbia University, National Divestment Protest Day, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Sullivan Principles, the State Department, U.S. corporations, Tanaquil Jones, the Coalition for a Free Southern Africa, the D.C. Student Coalition Against Apartheid, Willie Terry, Black Student Communications Organizing Network, Dartmouth College, the Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism, UNITA, ANC (African National Congress), and Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College. • LEGITIMACY CRISIS • AGAINST RACISM • BEYOND DIVESTMENT
