DENNIS BRUTUS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Your support will prevent this valuable writer, educator, scholar and activist from being deported.

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Creator

Western Massachusetts Dennis Brutus Defense Committee

Place Created

Hadley, Massachusetts, United States

Date

Undated, late 1981 or 1982

Type of Item

Leaflet

Length/duration

1 page

Description

Leaflet and order form for a Dennis Brutus poster. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is trying to deport Dennis Brutus, an internationally renowned South African poet, scholar, and educator currently teaching at Amherst College. He has been in exile in the United States for 10 years and is an outspoken critic against U.S. support of racist South Africa. On September 28, 1981, Brutus was notified by the INS that he must show cause why he should not be deported. His crime is that he was unable to get a Zimbabwean passport in time to renew his visa because Zimbabwe did not yet have a consulate in this country after its independence. An attractive three-color poster with a poem...

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Organization

Dennis Brutus Defense Committee - Western Mass

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

Rights Management

Used by permission of a former member of the Western Massachusetts Dennis Brutus Defense Committee.

Collection

Judy Weiss papers