Iowa City, Iowa, United States
May 1, 1985
Members of the Iowa Coalition Against Apartheid occupying Jessup Hall, the main administration building, at University of Iowa as part of a campaign to get the university to divest from companies doing business apartheid South Africa. The students renamed it Steven Biko Hall. (Source: "Armbands 'excitement' mark sit-in" by Karen Burns and "Officials say they're firm on divestment" by Kirk Brown, The Daily Iowan, May 2, 1985; Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter, May-June 1985, American Committee on Africa, available on this website; and Joe Iosbaker, a former member of the Progressive Student Network.)
Iowa Coalition Against Apartheid
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This photograph was digitized from PSN News, the newspaper of the Progressive Student Network, which provided it to the African Activist Archive Project.
Used by permission of a former member of the Progressive Student Network.
