Lawyers Against Apartheid Day in front of the South African Embassy organized by the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Over 1,000 lawyers participated, and eight lawyers demonstrated their opposition to apartheid by submitting to arrest. The photograph shows the lawyers who were arrested (from right) former Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Professor Goler Teal Butcher; former Congressman Father Robert Drinan; Arthenia L. Joyner, President of the National Bar Association (NBA); Gay McDougall, Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Victor McTeer from Mississippi; George Daley, a staff person to Rep....
Lawyers Against Apartheid Day in front of the South African Embassy organized by the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Over 1,000 lawyers participated, and eight lawyers demonstrated their opposition to apartheid by submitting to arrest. The photograph shows the lawyers who were arrested (from right) former Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Professor Goler Teal Butcher; former Congressman Father Robert Drinan; Arthenia L. Joyner, President of the National Bar Association (NBA); Gay McDougall, Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Victor McTeer from Mississippi; George Daley, a staff person to Rep. Charles B. Rangel; and an unidentified representative of the American Bar Association (ABA). (Source: Gay McDougall; and SOUTH AFRICA 1985: MARTIAL LAW IN THE TOWNSHIPS, SOUTHERN AFRICA PROJECT 1985 Annual Report, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1986, available on this website.
