Martin Luther King Jr.

Shantytown at Columbia: Building Structures for a Non-Racial Society in South Africa, in our own communities & at Columbia

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Creator

Anthony Glover; Coalition for a Free Southern Africa

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

Undated, about late March 1986

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Leaflet issued as part of a campaign to get Columbia University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa in the period before a shantytown was built at Columbia. The leaflet includes a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. saying "Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power so that the administration cannot elude our demands... It would be the height of naïvete to wait passively until the administration had somehow been infused with such blessings that it implored us for out programs. The first course is grounded in mature realism; the other in childish fantasy." The leaflet says the Coalition for a Free a Southern Africa, the Black...

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Publisher

Coalition for a Free Southern Africa

Organization

Coalition for a Free Southern Africa (Columbia University)

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of former members of the Coalition for a Free Southern Africa.

Collection

Columbia University Coalition for a Free South Africa: collection of event announcements, Michigan State University Library Special Collections