A rally of more than 250 students outside the entrance of the Furness Library (now the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library) to pressure the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees (who were meeting inside) to divest from companies in South Africa. David Richardson, a Pennsylvania State Representative, spoke at the rally. This rally ended an around-the-clock vigil begun on Wednesday at College Hall by the Penn Anti-Apartheid Committee. (Source: "A Brief History of Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania, Trends by Country: AFRICA", an online exhibit by Alison D. Graham, a University Archives Research Fellow during the summer of 2007 accessed October 22, 2009 at...
A rally of more than 250 students outside the entrance of the Furness Library (now the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library) to pressure the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees (who were meeting inside) to divest from companies in South Africa. David Richardson, a Pennsylvania State Representative, spoke at the rally. This rally ended an around-the-clock vigil begun on Wednesday at College Hall by the Penn Anti-Apartheid Committee. (Source: "A Brief History of Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania, Trends by Country: AFRICA", an online exhibit by Alison D. Graham, a University Archives Research Fellow during the summer of 2007 accessed October 22, 2009 at http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/intrntnl/country/africa.html and http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/archives/record.html?id=ARCHIVES_20070629006&)
