Demonstration for divestment from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa at Northwestern University organized by the Ad-hoc Group to End Northwestern Investments in South Africa. The demonstration and a related teach-in 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 photograph shows Dennis Brutus, an exiled South African then teaching at Northwestern University (with glasses...
Demonstration for divestment from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa at Northwestern University organized by the Ad-hoc Group to End Northwestern Investments in South Africa. The demonstration and a related teach-in 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 photograph shows Dennis Brutus, an exiled South African then teaching at Northwestern University (with glasses and holding the sign NU DIVEST NOW). (Source: Basil Clunie and Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter, June 1981, American Committee on Africa available on this website)
