Unlock Apartheid's Jails demonstration where over 30,000 keys collected across the country were dumped at the doors of the South Africa Consulate. This photograph includes Rev. M. William Howard (with tie and glasses), President of the American Committee on Africa, and David N. Dinkins (with black tie and holding a notebook), President of the Borough of Manhattan. The keys symbolized the demand to unlock the jails in South Africa, where many anti-apartheid activists were detained. In addition to real keys, demonstrators carried large symbolic keys. Posters reading "Free Moses Mayekiso!" and "UAW Demands Free Moses" are being carried by people in the crowd. Mayekiso, a...
Unlock Apartheid's Jails demonstration where over 30,000 keys collected across the country were dumped at the doors of the South Africa Consulate. This photograph includes Rev. M. William Howard (with tie and glasses), President of the American Committee on Africa, and David N. Dinkins (with black tie and holding a notebook), President of the Borough of Manhattan. The keys symbolized the demand to unlock the jails in South Africa, where many anti-apartheid activists were detained. In addition to real keys, demonstrators carried large symbolic keys. Posters reading "Free Moses Mayekiso!" and "UAW Demands Free Moses" are being carried by people in the crowd. Mayekiso, a leader of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), was one of the anti-apartheid leaders imprisoned at this time. The Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign was launched by The Africa Fund. (Source: ACOA Action News, Number 24, Winter 1987-88, American Committee on Africa available on this website.)
