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RACISTS DID THIS

RACISTS DID THIS

On the night of Jan 21-22, 1986, when twelve students calling themselves the Dartmouth Committee to Beautify the Green Before Winter Carnival, a group of writers from The Dartmouth Review, took sledge hammers to the structures, and sent a brief letter to President McLaughlin stating that they were "merely picking up trash off the Green". The shanties had been built by the Dartmouth Community for Divestment (DCD) as part of a campaign to get Dartmouth College to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. (Source: Mandela Hall at http://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2013_12_08_archive.html and In the Best Interest of the College at http://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-best-interest-of-college.html, both accessed February 6, 2015.)
Place Created

Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

Date

January 23, 1986 or a little later

Type of Item

Photograph

Description

On the night of Jan 21-22, 1986, when twelve students calling themselves the Dartmouth Committee to Beautify the Green Before Winter Carnival, a group of writers from The Dartmouth Review, took sledge hammers to the structures, and sent a brief letter to President McLaughlin stating that they were "merely picking up trash off the Green". The shanties had been built by the Dartmouth Community for Divestment (DCD) as part of a campaign to get Dartmouth College to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. (Source: Mandela Hall at http://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2013_12_08_archive.html and In the Best Interest of the College at...
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Organization

Dartmouth Community for Divestment

Coverage Africa

South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

image/jpeg

This image was digitized by Dartmouth College Library which made it available to the African Activist Archive Project.

Rights Management

Used curtsey of Dartmouth College Library

Collection

Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College Library

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