Alice Palmer, Associate Dean for African-American Affairs, addressing a teach-in at Northwestern University. The teach-in and related demonstrations were organized in opposition to a May 27-28, 1981 conference on South Africa organized by the Northwestern University administration and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation to showcase the Rockefeller Foundation's then-recent study purportedly demonstrating the value of continued investment in South Africa as an inhibiting influence on Apartheid. The teach-in was organized by the Ad-hoc Group to End Northwestern Investments in South Africa and cosponsored by Amnesty International, For Members Only, the Program on African Studies, the Ethical...
Alice Palmer, Associate Dean for African-American Affairs, addressing a teach-in at Northwestern University. The teach-in and related demonstrations were organized in opposition to a May 27-28, 1981 conference on South Africa organized by the Northwestern University administration and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation to showcase the Rockefeller Foundation's then-recent study purportedly demonstrating the value of continued investment in South Africa as an inhibiting influence on Apartheid. The teach-in was organized by the Ad-hoc Group to End Northwestern Investments in South Africa and cosponsored by Amnesty International, For Members Only, the Program on African Studies, the Ethical Humanist Society and local church groups. (Source: Basil Clunie and Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter, June 1981, American Committee on Africa available on this website)
