Free South Africa Movement
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Undated, December 1984?
2 pages
A chronology of heightened South African protest and government repression and popular response in the U.S. ARMED INVASIONS OF TOWNSHIPS; STRIKE; OFFICIAL U.S. RESPONSE; THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. RESPOND SPEARHEADED BY TRANSAFRICA; CHICAGO PEOPLE RESPOND. The Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) begins when Randall Robinson (Executive Director of TransAfrica), Walter Fauntroy (D.C. delegate to Congress), and Mary Frances Berry (member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission) are arrested for refusing to leave the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. Others are quickly arrested in D.C. and at actions in Boston, Los Angles, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Portland, Seattle, Mobile, and...
A chronology of heightened South African protest and government repression and popular response in the U.S. ARMED INVASIONS OF TOWNSHIPS; STRIKE; OFFICIAL U.S. RESPONSE; THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. RESPOND SPEARHEADED BY TRANSAFRICA; CHICAGO PEOPLE RESPOND. The Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) begins when Randall Robinson (Executive Director of TransAfrica), Walter Fauntroy (D.C. delegate to Congress), and Mary Frances Berry (member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission) are arrested for refusing to leave the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. Others are quickly arrested in D.C. and at actions in Boston, Los Angles, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Portland, Seattle, Mobile, and Salt Lake City. On December 6, FSAM mobilizes a 500-person picket at the South African Consulate in Chicago. On December 14, the Chicago City Council adopts a resolution condemning apartheid and vowing to pass sanctions legislation.
TransAfrica Chicago Support Committee
Free South Africa Movement
English
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Digitized by Columbia College Archives & Special Collections.
Used by permission of Cheryl Johnson-Odim.
