Billboard put up by the Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela and the San Francisco Bay Area National Lawyers Guild. Six of the billboards were put up around San Francisco. At the time members of the Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela said the billboard was an effort to thwart the South African government's censorship of television news which had resulted in the removal of the issue of apartheid from the public awareness. The organization name on the billboard is the National Lawyers Guild Foundation. This photograph of the billboard was provided to the African Activist Archive Project by Karen Kramer. (Source: Karen Kramer, a former member of the Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela,...
Billboard put up by the Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela and the San Francisco Bay Area National Lawyers Guild. Six of the billboards were put up around San Francisco. At the time members of the Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela said the billboard was an effort to thwart the South African government's censorship of television news which had resulted in the removal of the issue of apartheid from the public awareness. The organization name on the billboard is the National Lawyers Guild Foundation. This photograph of the billboard was provided to the African Activist Archive Project by Karen Kramer. (Source: Karen Kramer, a former member of the Lawyers Campaign to Free Nelson Mandela, and a newspaper article "Attorneys Against Apartheid Back Publicizing of Violence" by Anne Dorfman, San Francisco Daily Journal, February 22, 1989.)
