TransAfrica
Washington, DC, United States
November 26, 1984
1 page
Press release about another massive demonstration at the South African Embassy in Washington. D.C. by the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM). It was led a number of prominent political and civil rights leaders: Congressman Charles Hayes (D-IL); Rev. Joseph Lowery, Executive Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); David Clarke, Chairman, D.C. City Council; Charlene Drew-Jarvis, D.C. City Council Member; and Roger Wilkins, civic rights activist. Also present were the four black leaders whose sit-in at the embassy after an unsatisfactory meeting and subsequent overnight arrest had led to the formation of FSAM: D.C. Delegate, Rev. Walter Fauntroy; U.S. Civil Rights Commission...
Press release about another massive demonstration at the South African Embassy in Washington. D.C. by the Free South Africa Movement (FSAM). It was led a number of prominent political and civil rights leaders: Congressman Charles Hayes (D-IL); Rev. Joseph Lowery, Executive Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); David Clarke, Chairman, D.C. City Council; Charlene Drew-Jarvis, D.C. City Council Member; and Roger Wilkins, civic rights activist. Also present were the four black leaders whose sit-in at the embassy after an unsatisfactory meeting and subsequent overnight arrest had led to the formation of FSAM: D.C. Delegate, Rev. Walter Fauntroy; U.S. Civil Rights Commission member Mary Frances Berry; former EEOC Chair, Eleanor Holmes-Norton; and Randall Robinson, Executive Director of TransAfrica, the black foreign policy lobby.
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