New York, New York, United States
June 1976
Judge William Booth holding a megaphone and speaking in front of the United Nations at a demonstration about the Soweto Uprising, in which many young people went out on the streets in protest and many were killed. Booth is speaking in front of a curved wall with a verse from the Book of Isaiah in the Bible: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. No nation shall life up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Black and white photograph.
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Used by permission of Africa Action (successor to the American Committee on Africa).
