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The press release says A. Philip Randolph announced today that over $15 million has been withdrawn from Chase Manhattan and First National City banks to date in protest against the banks' loans to South Africa. Randolph is chairman of the Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid, which is conducting a campaign for the withdrawal of accounts from the banks due to their involvement in the apartheid economy of South Africa. Among the organization to have acted are Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in Manhattan, the Methodist Mission to the United Nations, St. Marks in the Bouwerie Episcopal Church, the New York/New Jersey region of the National Federation of Catholic College Students, and the periodical Christianity and Crisis. Individuals who have removed funds from either Chase or First National include Theodore Bikel and Pete Seeger, well-known entertainers; Frederick A.O. Schwartz, Jr., a prominent Wall Street lawyer; author Arthur Miller, and journalist Nat Hentoff; Immanuel Wallerstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University; Thomas Franck, Professor of Government and International Relations at New York University; Congressman Jonathan Bingham and New York State Senator Basil A. Patterson; Rev. Donald S. Harrington, Pastor of the Community Church of New York; and Reinhold Niebuhr, renowned theologian. [Note: $22 million has been written by hand in the title, crossing out $15 million.]

African Activist Archive

OVER $22 MILLION ALREADY WITHDRAWN IN BANK CAMPAIGN

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