Two men are pushing wheelbarrows with large glass jars and fishbowls holding donated keys to dump at the doors of the South Africa Consulate. One of the men is wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan: "Abolish Apartheid Now; Free Nelson Mandela, Support the ANC." Some people in this march are carrying large symbolic keys. This includes M. William Howard, President of the Board of the American Committee on Africa, who is between the two men pushing the wheelbarrows. This action was part of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign launched by The Africa Fund, which collected more than 30,000 keys from around the country. The keys symbolized the demand to unlock the jails in South Africa,...
Two men are pushing wheelbarrows with large glass jars and fishbowls holding donated keys to dump at the doors of the South Africa Consulate. One of the men is wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan: "Abolish Apartheid Now; Free Nelson Mandela, Support the ANC." Some people in this march are carrying large symbolic keys. This includes M. William Howard, President of the Board of the American Committee on Africa, who is between the two men pushing the wheelbarrows. This action was part of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign launched by The Africa Fund, which collected more than 30,000 keys from around the country. The keys symbolized the demand to unlock the jails in South Africa, where many anti-apartheid activists were detained. (See: ACOA Action News, Number 24, Winter 1987-88, available on this website.)
