Directory of Africa Activist Archives

Africa News Service

Location: Durham, North Carolina

Timespan: 1952 - 1998

Description: Africa News Service (ANS), a non-profit U. S. news agency, was founded in 1973. The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by ANS over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U. S. foreign policy towards Africa. The collection spans the years from approximately 1960 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978 through 1994. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Much of the material is gathered from mainstream media sources and government documentation in the United States, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world. In addition, the collection includes significant resources from alternative, minority, and special interest presses world-wide that may be difficult to locate elsewhere. The archive contains scarce and difficult-to-locate materials such as numerous publications produced by non-governmental organizations and grass-roots/community groups that are/were involved in efforts related to independence movements, economic development, and human rights issues in Africa. AllAfrica Global Media is the successor to the non-profit Africa News Service.

Media: 606.6 Linear Feet, 439,500 items

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Restrictions: One accession of the collection has usage restrictions. Contact a reference librarian for more information. In addition, some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection. Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.

Housed at: Duke University Libraries: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, 103 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA, (919) 660-5822, Fax: (919) 660-5934, special-collections@duke.edu, http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/index.html

Reference phone number: (919) 660-5822

Reference fax number: (919) 660-5934

Reference e-mail address: special-collections@duke.edu

Current name: AllAfrica Global Media

Current address: 920 M Street SE, Washington, DC 20003

Current phone number: (202) 546-0777

Current fax number: (202) 546-0676

Current Web address: http://allafrica.com/

Africa Today Collection

Summary: Papers, 1954-1998

Description: Africa Today magazine was first published in April 1954 as the bulletin for the newly founded American Committee on Africa (ACOA) in New York. The Committee acted as a clearinghouse for information about African political and economic events and to help the emergence of democratic and self-governing states in Africa. In 1966, publication of Africa Today was transferred to the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at the University of Denver under the direction of George W. Shepherd, Jr. George W. Shepherd, Jr. was an officer of ACOA and an editor of Africa Today from 1957 to 1961, and from 1967 to 1997. He taught at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver from 1961 until his retirement in 1992. Beginning in 1967, Africa Today was published by Africa Today Associates, a non-profit corporation, in association with GSIS. The journal continued to contain book reviews and scholarly essays covering such diverse topics as African politics, culture, economics and anthropology. Africa Today continued to be published in association with GSIS until the end of 1995. From 1974 until 1993, Edward A. Hawley served as executive editor. Beginning in 1996, Africa Today was published for Africa Today Associates by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. Publication was moved to the University of Indiana Press at the end of 1998. Although they are no longer editors, Shepherd and Hawley continue to be members of Africa Today Associates. Scope and Content: The collection consists primarily of correspondence with editorial consultants. Also included are issues of the journal, and miscellaneous office materials.

Media: 9.75 linear feet

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Catalog/Finding aid: Detailed list of contents

Housed at: University of Denver, Penrose Library, Special Collections & Archives, 2150 East Evans Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80208, Reference Phone: (303) 871-2905, Special Collections (303) 871-3428, http://library.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/index.cfm

Reference phone number: (303) 871-3428

Reference e-mail address: sfisher@du.edu

Reference Web address: http://library.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/index.cfm

Alexander Defense Committee

Location: United States, Canada, Europe

Timespan: 1964-1968

Summary: Records of an international organization (1964-1968) formed to protest apartheid and to support Dr. Neville Alexander and other South African political prisoners. In the collection are correspondence, newsletters, clippings, promotional material for national speaking tours, and files on ADC chapters in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Also present are speeches and writings of I. B. Tabata and Franz J. T. Lee, who toured the United States to raise funds for the group and for the families of the prisoners; papers documenting ADC's role in the deportation case of W. M. Tsotsi; and scattered records of other organizations supporting the ADC such as the American Committee on Africa and Unity Movement of South Africa. Most papers are written in English, but others are in German, French, Dutch, and an African language, possibly Xhosa.

Media: 3 rolls of microfilm

Catalog/Finding aid: Type "Alexander" in search box

Restrictions: Available only on microfilm

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Alexander Defense Committee: Madison Chapter

Location: Madison, Wisconsin

Summary: Madison, Wisconsin

Description: Records of the Madison chapter of an international organization established to protest apartheid and to assist South African political prisoners. The records include press releases and material distributed by the national organization; correspondence; financial, membership and sponsor lists; background material; and newspaper clippings, all primarily concerning the speaking engagements of I. B. Tabata and Franz J. T. Lee in Madison.

Media: 1 folder

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Alexander” in search box

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund

Location: New York, NY with a national focus

Summary: Papers, records, publications 1949-2001. Includes the archives of Americans for South African Resistance

Description: The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was founded in 1953 to support the liberation struggle in Africa. It was the major U.S. national organization supporting African struggles against colonialism and apartheid. ACOA grew out of the ad hoc Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR) which was formed to support the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws led by the African National Congress. In 1953, following the end of the Defiance Campaign, AFSAR met and decided to form ACOA, an organization supporting the whole anti-colonial struggle in Africa. In 1966 ACOA founded The Africa Fund, a 501(c)3 organization. The two organizations shared office space and staff but had separate boards and budgets. The collection includes the correspondence, project and research files of the two organizations. The collection includes publications, newsletters, photos, posters, videos and films published by ACOA/Africa Fund and other organizations. In 1967 ACOA established a Washington Office (Washington, DC). In 1972 the Washington Office was renamed the Washington Office on Africa and reorganized as being sponsored by five organizations including ACOA. (See entry for Washington Office on Africa.) In 1954 ACOA launched Africa Today, which later became independent under the control of Africa Today Associates and is now published by Indiana University Press. The collection includes papers, articles and correspondence of Adotei Akwei, Michael Fleshman, Jennifer Davis, James Farmer, Donald Harrington, Mary-Louise Hooper, George M. Houser, Paul Irish, Richard Knight, Dumisani Kumalo, Richard Lapchick, Conrad Lynn, Frank Montero, Prexy Nesbitt, Andrew E. Norman, Joshua Nessen, Wyatt Tee Walker, Peter Weiss and many others. It also includes correspondence with numerous African liberation movement leaders. Based in New York, NY, ACOA had a national focus and a broad rage of constituencies including students, labor, civil rights, religious and community leaders and elected officials. ACOA scope to include anti-colonial struggles throughout the continent including Algeria, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Western Sahara, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. ACOA played a key role in campaign for sanctions and the divestment which resulted in churches, universities, states and cities selling their stock holdings in companies that did business in apartheid South Africa.
The Africa Fund provided material assistance to the education and health programs of African liberation movements. It provided funds to the Mozambique Institute, a FRELIMO run school in Tanzania. The Africa Fund distributed the money raised by the Sun City album including sending $220,000 to the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somafco) run by the ANC in Tanzania; $160,000 to the South African Council of Churches to aid political prisoners and their families; and $119,000 each to TransAfrica and the ACOA for anti-apartheid educational work in the United States. The Fund also provided clothing, medicine and other support to refugee camps run by liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique and Zambia. It provided small emergency assistant grants to African refugees in the U.S. The Africa Fund conducted research into U.S. corporate involvement in southern Africa and the archives includes correspondence with companies, questionnaires sent to companies and company documents. The Africa Fund conducted public education campaigns in the U.S. including the "Unlock Apartheid's Jails" campaign. In the 1990s The Africa Fund had an active program supporting the struggle against the dictatorship in Nigeria.
ACOA and The Africa Fund published newsletters including Africa-UN Bulletin, ACOA Action News, Student Anti-Apartheid News, Public Investment and South Africa, and Africa Fund News. The two organizations also published pamphlets, reports and a series Southern Africa Perspectives (later renamed Africa Fund Perspectives.)Americans for South African Resistance published a bulletin.
For more information on see "No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle" by George M. Houser (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1989) and "Meeting Africa's Challenge - The Story of ACOA" by George M. Houser, ISSUE: A Quarterly Journal of Africanist Opinion, Volume VI, Numbers 2/3 Summer /Fall 1976
In 2001 ACOA, The Africa Fund and the Washington, DC-based Africa Policy Information Center merged to form Africa Action.
Microfilm: Part 1 (6 roles): ACOA Executive Committee minutes and National Office memoranda, 1952-1975; Part 2 (35 roles): Correspondence and subject files on South Africa, 1952-1985.This represents a limited amount of the ACOA material. Available in many libraries. Purchase from UPA/Lexis/Nexis.

Additional link: Website of Richard Knight

Additional link: UPA/Lexis/Nexis Microfilm of American Committee on Africa

Media: 94+ cubic feet plus 182 boxes; publications, correspondence, research files, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, photos, audio tapes, videos, etc.

Housed at: Amistad Research Center, Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118, Phone: (504) 865-5535, Fax: (504) 865-5580, arc@tulane.edu, http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org

Reference phone number: (504) 862-3221

Reference fax number: (504)865-5580

Reference e-mail address: square@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

Current name: Africa Action

Current address: 1634 Eye St. NW, #810, Washington, DC 20006 USA

Current phone number: (202) 546-7961

Current fax number: (202) 546-1545

Current Web address: http://www.africaaction.org/

American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society

Location: Various

Summary: Papers, [ca. 1969-ca. 1991]

Description: Founded in 1976 by Richard Lapchick, for more than 15 years the American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS) focused on the international sports boycott of South Africa. In 1978 it led a boycott of the Davis Cup tennis match between South Africa and the U.S. at Vanderbilt University. Lapchick was teaching at the time at Virginia Wesleyan College. As a result only 1,100 people attended the match while several thousand marched outside. In 1981 ACCESS was involved in protests against the U.S. tour of the Springboks, the all white South African rugby team, forcing cancellation of matches in Albany and Chicago. Material deposited by Richard Lapchick.

Media: 2 boxes (124 folders) ; 27 x 40 x 13 cm

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Restrictions: Collection not yet processed; contact archivist in advance

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: 517) 355-3700 or (517) 432-6123 ext. 239 or ext. 237

Reference fax number: (517) 432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

American Society of African Culture (Southern Africa materials)

Timespan: 1957-1969

Description: The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was composed of some four hundred Americans of African ancestry who primarily were teachers, scholars, and artists. It came into existence in 1957 as a result of the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists called by the editors of the journal, Presence Africaine, in Paris in 1956. The Records contain documents from conferences, organizations, and individuals. The "Southern Africa in Transition Conference" held at Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1963 generated a large number of documents that form part of this inventory. The following are examples of organizations represented in these records: Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid, South African Freedom Action Committee, and Student Aid for South Africans Abroad Association. One also will find correspondence between AMSAC officers and the officers of other organizations. A few of the student organizations have documents in the records that include organization newsletters, student newspapers, and photographs. Examples of individuals in the records include Horace Mann Bond, John A. Davis, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Lewis N'kosi, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Bloke Modisane, Seretse Khama, John F. Kennedy, Charles C. Diggs, and Ndabiningi Sithole. The organization ceased to operate in 1969.

Media: 42 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Collection description & finding aid

Restrictions: By appointment only, call (202) 806-7480

Housed at: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 500 Howard Place, NW, Washington, DC 20059, (202) 806-7240, (202) 806-6405, http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/

Reference phone number: (202) 806-7480

Amnesty International USA Archives

Location: New York, NY; Washington, DC and regional offices and local and campus chapters across the United States

Timespan: Early 1960s - present

Description: Amnesty International USA (Amnesty International of the USA, Inc., AIUSA) was formed in the early 1960s. It is the U.S. affiliate of Amnesty International (AI), an international human rights non-governmental organization (NGO), was founded in London by Peter Benenson in 1961. AI vision is a world where every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. The AIUSA Archives is a comprehensive collection of materials documenting the founding, activity and growth of AIUSA from the early 1960s through the present. This includes work on a number of African countries. The AIUSA Archives contains materials documenting the start of the U.S. section of AI in New York City in the early 1960’s, as well as materials from the AIUSA New York headquarters and the Washington, DC lobby office; from all the regional offices; and from all the programs and departments of AIUSA. The collection contains posters, banners, T-shirts, photographs, videos, DVDs, and more than 30 years of newspaper clippings mentioning Amnesty International and human rights. The collection includes country reports, mission reports, and oral histories. Many local and campus chapters and individual activists, especially country coordination specialists and members of steering committees and task forces, have deposited records of their activities at the AIUSA Archives or as associated collections.

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Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Columbia University Libraries, Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, Human Rights Organization Archives, 304 International Affairs Bldg, 420 West 118 Street, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 10027, 212-854-8046, Fax: 212-854-3834, chrdr@columbia.edu, http://www.columbia.edu/library/humanrights

Reference phone number: 212-854-8046

Reference fax number: 212-854-3834

Reference e-mail address: chrdr@columbia.edu

Current name: Amnesty International USA

Current address: 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001

Current phone number: (212) 807-8400

Current Web address: http://www.amnestyusa.org/

Anti-Apartheid Support Group

Location: University of North Carolina

Summary: Papers and records, 1980-1987

Description: From 1982 to 1985 various groups, chiefly the Public Interest Research Group, were involved in anti-apartheid activities on campus. The UNC Anti-Apartheid Support Group (AASG) was organized and officially recognized as a student organization in October of 1985. From 1985 to 1987 the AASG was very vocal on campus. Its members led the campus movement against apartheid by insisting on divestiture of all UNC holdings in companies operating in South Africa. Their protests and demonstrations peaked in March and April of 1986, when the group erected shanties in front of South Building. In October of 1987, the UNC Endowment Board voted to divest all of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa, and the AASG dismantled shortly thereafter. Included in the records are clippings, articles, and newsletters collected by the group. There are also membership lists; however, there is only limited correspondence. The archive includes materials about anti-apartheid activities that predated the formation of AASG and non-UNC material.

Media: 1 box

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, University Archives and Records Service, CB# 3926, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514-8890, (919) 962-1345, (919) 962-3594, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss

Reference phone number: (919) 962-1345

Reference fax number: (919) 962-3594

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/mailref.html

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Location: Various, national membership and focus

Summary: Papers, 1977-2001. Future archives will be added to this collection.

Description: Founded in 1977 at a national conference on Southern Africa at Michigan State University, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa. The papers here include those of Immanuel Wallterstein and Willard Johnson (co-chairs 1977-1991), David Wiley and Jean Sindab (co-chairs 1991-93). and William G. Martin (co-chair 1993-2001). In this latter period, solidarity and apartheid movements came to an end and the transition began to a post-apartheid, post-national liberation movement ­ as evident in holdings on the debt and HIV crises, the National Summit on Africa debates, and ACAS’ own policy workshops. The organization still operates. Publishes ACAS Bulletin.

Catalog/Finding aid: Catalog

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory of collection

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Current name: Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Current address: ACAS, c/o Kristin Peterson, Anthropology, Michigan State University, 344 Baker Hall, East Lansing MI 48824

Current Web address: http://www.concernedafricascholars.org/

Becker, Beate Klein

Location: New York, New York

Summary: Papers, 1977-1980

Description: Papers and research files collected by Beate Klein Becker reflecting her involvement in and the activities of the New York chapter of the Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa. Materials generally concern the Committee's investigation of corporate investment practices and banking policies and their relationship to apartheid in South Africa, plus the Committee's actions to influence changes in corporate behavior and to increase public awareness of the issues.

Media: 1.4 cubic feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Becker” in search box

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: (608) 264-6460

Reference fax number: (608) 264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Summary: Records of the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BCLSA) and similar organizations, 1970s-1990s

Description: Formed after the Soweto uprising, between 1977 and 1980 BCLSA focused on the ties between the First National Bank of Boston to the Standard Bank of South Africa, as well as its red-lining policies and support for nuclear power in the U.S. In 1980 it helped form MassDivest, which led the campaign to divest the state pension from companies doing business in South Africa. In January 1983 the legislature passed a comprehensive divestment bill that became a model for other sates. The collection includes material of other Massachusetts organization. The anti-apartheid activists who eventually formed BCLSA came from groups such as the Africa Research Group, whose Boston members was active in the early 1970s, and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, which organized on the Harvard-Radcliffe campus in the mid-1970s. The collection includes material from other Boston area organizations including the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement which drew attention to the Polaroid camera systems being used in the pass system in South Africa, the Gulf Boycott Coalition which between 1972-1975 was active in promoting the boycott of Gulf gasoline because of the company’s support for the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola, the Southern Africa Solidarity Coalition and MassDivest which led the successful campaign for state divestment. BCLSA stopped meeting as a separate organization in the mid-1980s and various members joined with other activities by other groups in the Boston area, primarily FreeSA and TransAfrica. FreeSA continued to do fund-raising events and supported non-governmental organizations active in South Africa in the late 1980s. Other activities that followed the institution of U.S. sanctions in the 1980s included meetings of health care professionals and formation of a Boston chapter of the Committee for Health in South Africa (CHISA), the mobilization of support for Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston in 1990, and the development of a “sister state” agreement between Massachusetts and the Eastern Cape in the mid-1990s.
Papers collected by Richard Clapp and Barbara Brown.

Suggested reading: A Brief History of the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, Richard Clapp: http://africa.msu.edu/activists/remembrances/clapp.php

Media: 1 box

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Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: 517-355-3700 or 517-432-6123 x239

Reference fax number: 517-432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

Brutus, Dennis

Summary: Papers, 1970-1990

Description: The collection consists of personal and professional papers, correspondence, writings, files of South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) and the Dennis Brutus Defence Committee, anti-apartheid posters, photographs, recordings, and subject files on Nelson Mandela, human rights, South African politics, divestment, apartheid and sports, African literature, and the struggle against apartheid in general. Born in 1924, Dennis Brutus is a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. He founded the South African Sports Association in 1961 and SAN-ROC in 1963, and was subsequently arrested and jailed, placed under house arrest, and banned from all literary, academic and political activities. He went into exile in 1966 and has lived in the United States since 1970, emerging over the years as a prominent lecturer and author, a professor of African literature and a major spokesperson in the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa. Photographs, anti-apartheid posters and audio-visual recordings transferred respectively to the Photographs and Prints, the Art and Artifacts and the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Divisions.

Media: 19.5 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: For manuscripts and archives Click here

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (212) 491-2224. Photographs and Prints Division (212) 491-2057. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division (212) 491-2236

Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism

Location: Albany, New York

Summary: Records: 1981–1995, 6 reels of microfilm (APAP–011)

Media: 8 boxes, 3.5 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Includes an overview and brief history of the organization

Housed at: University at Albany, University Library, SM.E Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222 USA, (518) 442-3600, http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/africanamerican.htm

Reference phone number: (518) 437–3934

Reference Web address: http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/speapap.htm

Center for the Study of Sport in Society records

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Summary: Records, 1978-2003 (1985-1998 bulk)

Description: Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society (CSSS) was founded by Richard Lapchick in 1984 to increase awareness of sports and their relation to society, and to explore the use of sports in bringing about positive social change. It was the first academic center in the United States dedicated to sports and their role in society. Richard Lapchick served as director of the Center from 1985-1998. The archive includes material on the sports boycott of apartheid South Africa including on American Coordination Committee for Sport and Society (ACCESS), which was founded by Lapchick. It also includes material on numerous anti-apartheid organizations around the world including Africa Today Associates, the American Committee on Africa, the Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Bishop Desmond Tutu Scholarship Fund, the Boycott Shell Committee, FREESA, HART: The New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement, the International Defense and Aid Fund, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Faculty and Staff Against Apartheid (Northeastern University), the South African Congress on Sport (SACOS), the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) and the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. There is also material on anti-apartheid conferences and Teamwork-South Africa (1991-1996).

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Catalog/Finding aid: List of Contents

Restrictions: Some restrictions apply; contact Archives and Special Collections Department in advance.

Housed at: Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, 92 Snell Library, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115 USA, Phone: (617) 373-2351, archives@neu.edu, http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/

Reference phone number: (617) 373-2351

Reference e-mail address: archives@neu.edu

Champaign-Urbana Coalition Against Apartheid

Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

Summary: Papers, 1964-1991

Description: Records of the Champaign-Urbana Coalition Against Apartheid, a campus organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes articles, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, posters, publications, and reports of American Committee on Africa (1983-89), Divest Now Coalition (1979-86), U.N. Center Against Apartheid (1977-84) and regarding apartheid, anti-apartheid organizations, boycotts, corporate and university divestment, human rights (1978-94), labor unions, Mozambique (1987-91), Namibia (1974-88), and women (1980-81). Deposited by Al Kagan.

Media: 10 boxes, 8.6 cubic feet

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Catalog/Finding aid: Folder/box list (PDF file)

Housed at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, 1608 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801 USA, (217) 333-0790, http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/index.html

Reference phone number: University Archives (217) 333-0798

Reference e-mail address: illiarch@uiuc.edu

Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

Summary: Papers and records, 1988 - 1993

Description: Records of a local anti-apartheid organization formed in 1985 by residents of Charlotte N.C., who were "concerned about the ongoing crisis in South Africa and neighboring countries." The organization sponsored a number of events, protested loans by local businesses to the South African government, and invited visits by speakers who would "share insights and information with citizens of our community." Contains correspondence, flyers, programs, meeting and event notices, memoranda, minutes, news clippings, photographs, schedules, statements, and miscellaneous publications.

Media: 0.1 linear feet (one file folder)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: None

Housed at: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library, Special Collections Department, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001

Reference phone number: (704) 687-2449

Reference fax number: (704) 687-2232

Reference e-mail address: speccoll@email.uncc.edu

Church Council of Greater Seattle, Records (Southern Africa Task Force)

Location: Seattle, Washington

Description: The Church Council of Greater Seattle established a Southern Africa Task Force that operated from 1979 thought 1995.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900, Phone: (206) 543-1929, Fax: (206) 543-1931, http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/

Reference phone number: (206) 543-1929

Reference fax number: (206) 543-1931

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/general/questionform.html

Committee for Health in Southern Africa

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Papers, 1984-1995 Archive

Description: Founded in July 1984, the Committee for Health in Southern Africa (CHISA) was a non-profit organization which consisted of persons in North America who volunteered their concern with health in Southern Africa, and in particular with the health issues raised by apartheid. Health and health issues are broadly defined, in keeping with the definition of the World Health Organization that health is a state of complete physical, psychological and social well-being. Prime concerns of CHISA were health and related human rights in South Africa; and the role of health professionals and professional organizations in that country. CHISA maintained a liaison in South Africa with the National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA), a multi-racial organization with broader functions, but a similar set of prime concerns. In North America, CHISA maintained liaison with local chapters across the continent. The uncataloged archive includes correspondence of the steering committee regarding CHISA meetings, finances, membership, and the organization of or participation in conferences in the USA and in southern Africa; selected occasional newsletters of CHISA and related organizations; selected newspaper clippings and excerpts from publications on apartheid and health issues in South Africa; unpublished and published conference proceedings; and other selected publications relating to health issues in southern Africa – especially South Africa. There are no finding aids. This archive is currently in storage at Columbia University Libraries in New York City.

Restrictions: The CHISA archive is not open to the general public. Access to the archive by researchers is extremely limited and only with the permission of the African Studies Librarian. For more information, please contact: Dr. Joseph S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University, 308 Lehman Library, 420 West 118th Street, New York, New York 10027 USA Phone: 212-854-8045 Fax: 212-854-3834 E-mail: caruso@columbia.edu

Housed at: Columbia University Libraries African Studies, 308 International Affairs, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027. The African studies materials are located throughout Columbia's 22 departmental libraries., Phone: (212) 854-8045, africa@libraries.cul.columbia.edu, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/about.html

Reference phone number: (212) 854-8045

Reference fax number: (212) 854-3834

Reference e-mail address: caruso@columbia.edu

Committee for a Free Mozambique

Location: New York, NY

Timespan: 1970s

Description: The Committee for a Free Mozambique (CFM) was established to support the struggle of Frelimo for independence from Portugal. No proper archives remain for the Committee. Some editions of its newsletter CFM News & Notes are available at Yale University Library and possibly other institutions.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here – type “cfm news” and use journal/newspaper/magazine search

Restrictions: Restrictions apply to the use of Yale University Library. Scholars not affiliated with Yale should visit the library website or contact the library by telephone (203) 432-1853 or fax (203) 432-9486.

Housed at: Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, 130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240, (203) 432-1810, http://www.library.yale.edu/

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1775

Cornell University: David Lyons and Matthew Lyons Cornell divestment movement collection, 1976-1987

Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Summary: Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, and other publications, 1976-1987

Description: Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, and other publications, 1976-1987
Matthew Lyons (Cornell University Class of 1986) helped to organize and participated in the first divestment sit-ins at Cornell's Day Hall in April-May 1985, as well as the May 8, 1985 action, "Take It To the Straight." In the fall of 1985, he helped to coordinate the divestment movement's daily sit-ins and civil disobedience at Day Hall. David Lyons, Matthew's father, is professor of law and philosophy at Cornell University. He was part of the first group of Cornell faculty and staff to be arrested in the divestment sit-ins in April 1985. He helped to draft the principal Faculty and Staff Against Apartheid (FSAA) documents including "Why Cornell Should Divest" and the FSAA's reply to the Proxy Review Committee Report on divestment. He represented Shantytown residents within the Cornell judicial system with regard to their complaints against the central administration.

Media: 1 cubic foot

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, (607) 255-3530, (607) 255-9524, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/

Reference phone number: (607) 255-3530

Reference fax number: (607) 255-9524

Reference e-mail address: rareref@cornell.edu

Reference Web address: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/services/reference.html

Crowe, Francis papers

Location: Western Massachusetts

Summary: Papers of social activism in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1960 - 2003

Description: Pacifist; Political activist. Born Carthage, Missouri, 1919. Married Thomas Crowe, 1945, and moved to Northampton, MA; three children. Crowe founded and was active in many causes and peace groups, including the anti-apartheid movement, from the mid-20th century. The archive includes extensive records from Crowe’s work as the western Massachusetts representative for American Friends' Service Committee (1970s-90s), including anti-apartheid activity. She was active in the Committee to End Apartheid, Springfield, MA. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, posters, videotapes, memorabilia, calendars, notebooks, manuscripts, notes, speeches, petitions, itineraries, and financial records. As of July 2005, the collection was unprocessed.

Media: 61 linear feet (49 boxes)

Restrictions: Partially restricted access - contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information

Housed at: Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection, Alumnae Gym (Neilson Library), Northampton, MA 01063, Phone: 413 585-2970, Fax: 413 585-2886, ssc-wmhist@smith.edu, http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/

Reference phone number: 413-585-2970

Reference fax number: 413-585-2886

Reference e-mail address: ssc-wmhist@smith.edu

Davis, Peter Collection

Summary: The Peter Davis Collection constitutes over thirty years of activities by Peter Davis as a producer, director, scriptwriter, cameraman and editor of documentary films on social and political issues.

Description: Peter Davis is the founder of Villon Films, and has been independently producing and distributing award-winning films since the 'sixties, mostly on social and political issues. For thirty years be was based in the U.S., where many of his productions were broadcast on PBS. He has written, produced, and directed more than sixty documentaries, including several on apartheid. Davis began making films in South Africa in the 1970s and became deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement. His films were widely used by the international anti-apartheid movement. His current focus is on the history of cinema relating to South Africa. The Peter Davis Collection at Indiana University represents thirty years of work. The South African material in the Peter Davis Collection not only spans the period of the most intensive struggle for human rights in that country, but also includes historical work dating from the beginning of the century. Davis' films include interviews with many South African activists. The collection includes not only films, but also corresponding outtakes, photographs, stills, audiocassettes, and manuscripts, all available for research and study. His credits include: South Africa: the White Laager (United Nations, Swedish TV, PBS, 1977), a history of Afrikaner nationalism; Generations of Resistance (United Nations, Swedish TV, National Black Programming Consortium, PBS, 1980), documenting the long history of African rebellion against white rule in South Africa up to the student uprising of 1976; Amandla! (Washington Office on Africa, 1980) 2-part educational slide-show; South Africa: The Nuclear File (Swedish TV, 1980) development of South Africa’s nuclear industry to weapons’ capacity; Winnie Mandela (United Nations, Swedish TV, National Black Programming Consortium, 1986); Remember Mandela! (Villon Films, 1988) biography of Nelson Mandela; and In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1993), a two-part social and political history of the representation of South Africa in cinema fiction films during the apartheid period. The Peter Davis Collection at Indiana University represents thirty years of work. The collection includes not only films, but also corresponding outtakes, photographs, stills, audiocassettes, and manuscripts, all available for research and study. Contributed by Peter Davis.

Additional link: Villon Films

Additional link: Peter Davis discusses South Africa

Media: Films, photos, manuscripts

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown

Housed at: Indiana University, Black Film Center/Archive, Smith Research Center, Suite 180, 2805 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, Phone: (812) 855-6041, Fax: (812) 856-5832, http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/

Reference phone number: (812) 855-6041

Reference fax number: (812) 856-5832

Educators Against Racism and Apartheid

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Papers, 1985-1994

Description: Educators Against Racism and Apartheid was founded by educators in 1985 as Educators Against Apartheid. The name was changed because members of the group thought it important that educators deal with issues of racism in the United States at the same time that they dealt with apartheid in South Africa. The organization met monthly (except in summer), usually in the Riverside Church. The organization developed educational materials including a monthly newsletter which went to teachers all over the United States. The organization published two editions of Apartheid Is Wrong: A Curriculum for Young People which was funded in part by the United Nations Special Commission on Apartheid. The curriculum had lessons for teachers in all curriculum areas. It was used by teachers from early childhood classrooms all the way through universities. The group produced a filmstrip about many aspects of apartheid, particularly issues that impacted young people, with a cassette narrated by the Ruby Dee, who contributed her labor for the project. One of the organization’s projects was a boycott of Kellogg’s cereals because children could relate to Kellogg’s as opposed to other corporations that were involved in South Africa. Many young people participated in that boycott. The organization worked to get the Teacher’s Retirement System to divest itself from corporations doing business in South Africa. Members organized and participated in many demonstrations. The archive includes copies of the curriculum guide and the newsletter, some original and copied correspondence (for example with Oliver Tambo and young American children from the 1980s), both editions of the curriculum, anti-apartheid flyers, buttons, and photographs and videocassettes of group-sponsored events and performances (including a children’s play and a school class) from 1990 to 1993. Archives deposited by Paula Rogovin, one of the founding members and a former President of the Board of Directors.

Catalog/Finding aid: Catalog

Restrictions: Not currently available. The archives have not yet been processed or fully accessed.

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3770

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana

Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa (Yale University)

Location: New York, New York

Summary: Papers: 1956-1996 Yale Divinty School collection: Publications (1963-1994), files relating to Namibia (1971-1990).

Description: Based in New York, NY with a national constituency. Founded as Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa (ECSA). Renamed Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa. The records in this collection primarily document the ECSA's work in relation to Namibia. The ECSA has served as a link between Anglicans in Southern Africa and people in the United States by publishing a newsletter, issuing news releases, sponsoring public meetings, preparing and publishing special reports, sponsoring speaking and study tours for Southern Africans, raising funds to support education and provide relief in Southern Africa, and providing aid and counsel to visiting Southern Africans. The organization has encouraged its supporters to contact U.S. political leaders regarding crucial issues. Key names include William “Bill” Johnston (founder), Elizabeth Landis.

Other name(s): Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa

Suggested reading: One of God's Irregulars: William Overton Johnston and the Challenge to the Church to Divest from Apartheid South Africa, 1954-1971, Edgar Lockwood: http://www.africanactivist.msu.edu/remembrance.php?id=15

Media: Yale archive: 8 boxes; 4 linear feet National Archive of Namibia: Not processed

Catalog/Finding aid: Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut USA, Divinity.Library@yale.edu, http://www.library.yale.edu/div/speccoll.html

Reference e-mail address: divinity.library@yale.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/request.htm

Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa / Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa

Location: New York, NY

Description: Founded as Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa (ECSA) in 1954, the organization was renamed Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa (ECSA) in the 1980s. Based in New York, the organization had a national constituency. ECSA’s founder, president and dole paid staff person was William O. Johnston, known as Bill. The organization published a newsletter ECSA Bulletin on an irregular basis. In addition to South Africa, a significant emphasis was placed on Namibia. Others involved in the organization included William H. Booth, Oscar Calendar, Jim Cason, Michael Fleshman, and Elizabeth S. Landis. On the death of Bill Johnston in 1998, ECSA was closed down and the remaining archives sent to the National Archives of Namibia.

Suggested reading: One of God's Irregulars: William Overton Johnston and the Challenge to the Church to Divest from Apartheid South Africa, 1954-1971, Edgar Lockwood: http://www.africanactivist.msu.edu/remembrance.php?id=15

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: National Archives of Namibia, Private Bag 13250, Windhoek, Namibia, 264-61-2935211, 264-61-2935217, natarch@mec.gov.na

Reference phone number: +264-61-2935211

Reference fax number: +264-61-2935217

Reference e-mail address: natarch@mec.gov.na

Harrington, John

Location: California

Timespan: Papers, 1972-1995

Description: In June 1972, John Harrington authored a legislative report for the Assembly Office of Research entitled "California's Economic Involvement with Firms Operating in Southern Africa." He also assisted the State Legislature's Black Caucus draft divestment legislation. He subsequently authored additional legislative reports though the 1970s and early 1980s. He served as Chair of the Governor's Public Investment Task Force under Governor Edmund Brown and submitted its final report in October 1981. As a publicly appointed trustee of the Sacramento City Employees, he presented documentation of U.S. corporate complicity in the deaths of hundreds of individuals in Southern Africa to the Sacramento Board of Administration, Investment and Fiscal Management. He testified before several state legislative bodies and provided expert testimony in an Oregon legal case. Authored "The Economics of Divestment" [sound recording, Pacifica Radio Archive, 1985] with Gay Seidman and Walter Turner.

Catalog/Finding aid: Catalog

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory of collection

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3770

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana

Hooper, Mary-Louise – papers

Summary: Papers of Mary-Louise Hooper

Description: Mary-Louise Hooper was an American, a Quaker and a graduate of Stanford University. In 1956 Mary-Louise Hooper went to South Africa on a group tour and met Chief Albert Lutuli and other leaders of the ANC. She became deeply committed to the anti-apartheid cause and she immigrated to South Africa later that year and bought a home in Durban. She worked for two years as an assistant to Lutuli. She was arrested and given a deportation order in March 1957 with thirty days to clear up her affairs. The ANC gave Hooper a letter on commendation signed by Lutuli and Tambo. After being forced to leave South Africa, Hooper returned to the United States and worked at the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) both in its office in New York and as the organization’s West Cost representative. She was a member of the ANC’s delegation to the All Africa People’s Conference in Accra in December 1958 - no members of the ANC based inside South Africa were able to attend, as the government refused to let them travel outside the country. She also attended the All-African Peoples Conferences held in Tunis (1960) and Cairo (1961). Her work at ACOA included raising money for political prisoners for the Africa Defense and Aid Fund, arranging public meetings for African leaders, public speaking, helping African students in the U.S. and other countries, organizing the Declaration of American Artists Against Apartheid statement “We Say ‘No’ to Apartheid” opposing cultural contacts, signed by 65 well known performers, and editing a newsletter, South African Bulletin (later renamed Southern Africa Bulletin). She co-coordinated the Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid, initiated by the ACOA and the University Christian Movement, which campaigned against the financial support to apartheid given by two of the largest New York banks - Chase Manhattan and First National City. She traveled in 24 African countries and was acquainted. Included in the archives are original letters from Moses Kotane in Dar-Es-Salaam, Oliver Tambo, Alfred Hutchison, Zeke Mphahlele, “M.P.” Naicker, and many from Albert Lutuli in Groutville. The archive also includes letters from Joshua Nkomo of Zimbabwe and Tom Mboya of Kenya. Additional archival material related to Mary-Louise Hooper is in the archives of the ACOA at the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.

Additional link: Letter from Wendell Foster and Mary-Louise Hooper, Co-Coordinators of the Committee Of Conscience Against Apartheid, 7 October 1966

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Restrictions: Library use only - contact MSU Library in advance

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Human Rights Watch Archives

Location: 1978 - present

Description: In 1978, under the direction of founder and former chair Robert L. Bernstein, Human Rights Watch (HRW) was established as Helsinki Watch (HW). HW’s mission was to monitor the compliance of the former Soviet Union and the other communist bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. As the organization has grown, it has formed other watch committees to cover other regions of the world including Africa. In 1988, all of the committees were united under one organization to form Human Rights Watch. These watch committees produce research reports on violations of international human rights norms as set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally-accepted human rights norms. These reports are intended to draw international attention to human rights abuses and to put pressure on governments and international organizations to reform. In the ensuing years, besides issuing reports, HRW has also expanded its collaborative lobbying efforts to expose human rights abuses throughout the world. Human Rights Watch, for example, was one of six international NGOs that established the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in 1998. In turn, it is also the co-chair of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a global coalition of civil society groups that have successfully lobbied to introduce the Ottawa Convention, a treaty that prohibits the use of anti-personnel landmines. Finally, HRW is an original member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of nongovernmental organizations that monitor censorship worldwide.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Columbia University Libraries, Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, Human Rights Organization Archives, 304 International Affairs Bldg, 420 West 118 Street, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 10027, 212-854-8046, Fax: 212-854-3834, chrdr@columbia.edu, http://www.columbia.edu/library/humanrights

Reference phone number: (212) 854-8046

Reference fax number: (212) 854-3834

Reference e-mail address: chrdr@columbia.edu

Current name: Human Rights Watch

Current address: 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, NY 10118-3299 USA. Also has offices in a number of other U.S. cities and abroad.

Current phone number: (212) 290-4700

Current fax number: (212) 736-1300

Current e-mail address: hrwnyc@hrw.org

Current Web address: http://www.hrw.org

Hunton, William Alphaeus

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Personal, professional, organizational and literary papers, 1926 - 1970

Description: William Alphaeus Hunton was an African American scholar and activist. He became the Educational Director of the Council on African Affairs (CAA) in 1943, during a one year leave of absence from Howard University. The following year, he resigned from his job as a professor and moved to New York. After the withdrawal of Max Yergan from the post of Executive Director of the CAA, Hunton additionally assumed the role of executive secretary - assuring, often alone, the functioning of the entire organization until its dissolution in 1955. Other prominent members included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Mary McLeod Bethune. The CAA sought to educate the general public about the history of Africa and its struggle against colonialism and imperialism. CAA published a monthly bulletin New Africa and a regular newsletter, Spotlight on Africa, which featured in-depth stories on Africa by renown scholars including Du Bois and Hunton . The Council mounted effective public campaigns and raised funds around specific issues such as the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws in South Africa, the partition of the former Italian colonies in East Africa by the NATO powers in 1949 and the jailing of black leaders in Kenya and South Africa in 1953. But the emergence of the Cold War and activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee crippled the work of the Council. The CAA and its officers were repeatedly investigated and accused of subversion, unpatriotism and disloyalty and in 1955 the CAA dissolved. Hunton's book, Decision on Africa was published in 1957. At the invitation of President Sekou Toure he immigrated to Guinea. In 1962 he accepted an invitation from W.E.B. DuBois to work in Ghana. In February 1966 President Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown and Hunton was later expelled from Ghana. Hunton returned to New York but a year later moved to Zambia at the invitation from President Kenneth Kaunda. He died of cancer in Lusaka on January 13, 1970 at the age of 63.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: (212) 491-2224

Reference fax number: (212) 491-2037

Reference e-mail address: scmarbref@nypl.org

Impact Visuals Photograph Collection

Location: New York, NY

Timespan: n.d., 1964-2000 [bulk 1983-1999]

Summary: Photographs, slides and negatives primarily of South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement. Some supporting material on photo cooperatives and the shooting death of Abdul Shariff, one of the photographers represented in the collection.

Description: Impact Visuals was a New York City-based cooperative photo agency dedicated to social documentary photography. Founded by Michael Kaufman, Impact Visuals operated for 15 years until shutting down in 2001. Most of the images in this collection were obtained when Impact Visuals acquired defunct South African cooperative Afrapix's material. Afrapix was a collective, self-funded group of freelance photographers in South Africa operating between 1982-1992. A few additional images came from Southlight Photographic Agency. The collection consists of photographs, slides, and negatives, as well as a limited amount of supporting materials and publications. The vast majority of the material relates to South Africa. Other African nations, Holland, Palestine, Yugoslovia, and even New Jersey in the USA are also pictured. South Africa's first interracial elections in April 1994 are particularly well represented in the collection, as are the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela, and National Party President F.W. De Klerk. Subjects other than politics include the environment, labor, economics, health, poverty, and cultural life. Abdul Shariff, one of the photographers who worked for Afrapix and later Impact Visuals, was killed while documenting an ANC event in January 1994. Shariff's curriculum vitae, contract with Impact Visuals, and correspondence with fellow photographer Ansell Horn document the working relationships of a South African photographer.

Media: 6.5 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Restrictions: There are no access restrictions on this collection. Contact in reference advance. Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

Housed at: University of Connecticut Libraries, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Archives & Special Collections, 405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205 USA, Phone: (860) 486-4500, Fax: (860) 486- 5421, http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/index.html

Reference phone number: (860) 486-2524

Reference fax number: (860) 486-5421

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/about/staff.htm

International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa United States Committee

Summary: Papers and records, 1956-1989. The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the work of the International Defense and Aid Fund in North America.

Description: The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa was founded in 1964 to seek peaceful and constructive solutions to the problems created by racial oppression in Southern Africa. It grew out of the ad hoc committees that were formed in Britain and South Africa in 1952 for the purpose of raising funds for legal defense and humanitarian aid for victims of injustice, including political prisoners, banned persons, and their families. A United States committee was established in 1972. The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the work of the International Defense and Aid Fund in North America. An unpublished finding aid is available in the repository. Cite as: International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa Records. Call Number: MS 1600

Media: 9.75 linear feet (9 boxes)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here for Yale University Library catalog listing

Restrictions: Unknown, contact library in advance.

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1735

Reference fax number: (203) 432-7441

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

International Oil Working Group

Location: USA

Summary: Records, 1979-1987

Description: The International Oil Working Group (IOWG) is one of a number of organizations that worked to implement an oil embargo initiated by the United Nations General Assembly against South Africa to protest the country's policies of apartheid. The IOWG grew out of the Sanctions Working Group established in 1979. Although the nature and timing of the change in names is unclear, Dr. Teresa Turner was instrumental in the formation of both groups and was primarily responsible for their organization and administration. Other directors included Luis Prado, Arnold Baker and Kassahun Checole. While the group was loosely organized, it maintained the basic structure of a special advisory board with a pool of research associates. Primary activities involved researching topics related to the oil embargo; writing papers for regional, national, and international conferences; giving testimony at UN meetings; providing information to governments, unions and other groups committed to aiding in the implementation of the oil embargo; lecturing to students and members of the community on the subject of sanctions against South Africa; and collaborating with the UN Center Against Apartheid. Research topics included tanker monitoring to detect and expose those shipping companies that broke the embargo; the energy needs in those countries in southern Africa which depend upon South Africa to meet some of their energy demands; ways to effectively implement and enforce the oil embargo; trade union action by oil transport workers; Namibian independence and decolonization; and underground oil storage in South Africa. Collection consists of administrative papers including financial records, minutes and association history materials; correspondence; printed materials produced by the IOWG; conference files; UN documents relating to South Africa and sanctions; and reference materials, including published reports, newsclippings, newsletters and journals, related to oil shipping, tanker information and South African economic and political activity generally. Acquired from Teresa Turner.

Media: 15 linear ft., 29 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Finding Aid

Housed at: University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Special Collections and Archives, Amherst, MA 01003, Phone: (413) 545-2780, Fax: (413) 577-1399, http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/spec.html

Reference phone number: (413) 545-2780

Reference fax number: (413) 577-1399

Reference Web address: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/askarch.html

Landis, Elizabeth

Summary: Papers

Description: Elizabeth Landis, an international lawyer, worked at United Nations Council for Namibia from 1974 until the end of 1981. She was a key aid to Sean McBride, who was UN Commissioner for Namibia from 1974 -1977. She remained active in supporting Namibia until its independence. This collection includes mostly her writings on Namibia. Not included in this collection is her work with the American Committee on Africa starting in the early 1950s and with the Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa.

Media: 0.4 meters

Housed at: National Archives of Namibia, Private Bag 13250, Windhoek, Namibia, 264-61-2935211, 264-61-2935217, natarch@mec.gov.na

Reference phone number: 264-61-2935211

Reference fax number: 264-61-2935217

Reference e-mail address: natarch@mec.gov.na

Lutheran World Ministries, Office on World Community – Namibia Files

Summary: Files of the Office on World Community and Lutheran World Ministries (LWM), (1964-1965, 1971-1988)

Description: The Office on World Community subject files (1964-1965, 1971-1988) contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, statements, resolutions, publications, news releases, and news clippings regarding the Office's involvement in working for Namibian independence and against the apartheid system in South Africa. Topics of interest relate to human rights violations in South Africa and specifically Namibia; staff and other organizations' visitations to South Africa; consultations and conferences regarding South African apartheid; assistance to the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO); U.S. divestment from South Africa; United Nations' (U.N.) actions and involvement in Namibia; and work with and assistance to other U.S. and international organizations against apartheid. Files were maintained by Office on World Community Directors Edward C. May (1973-1984) and Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, Jr. (1985-1987). Established in 1977 as the successor body of the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC), LWM was a joint agency of the Lutheran Church in America, The American Lutheran Church, and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Its programs focused on world mission, theological and social study, volunteer service, publicity and communication, and international scholarship exchange. The Office on World Community, was established in 1973 as a joint project of the USANC and the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., to inform USANC members of world community needs, events, and issues and U.N. activities. The Office was transferred to LWM in 1977. In 1987, LWM was terminated with the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Media: 31 Boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here (Full aid not online.)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here, search for Namibia

Housed at: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA, (847) 690-9410, (847) 690-9502, archives@elca.org, http://www.elca.org/library/index.html

Reference phone number: (847) 690-9410

Reference fax number: (847) 690-9502

Reference e-mail address: archives@elca.org

Madison Anti-Apartheid Coalition

Location: Madison, Wisconsin

Summary: Records: 1968-1992

Description: Records, mainly 1970-1973 and 1987-1991, of a student organization at the University of Wisconsin formed in 1969 as the Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa (MACSA) to lobby, educate the community about events in South Africa, and provide assistance to liberation movements. In 1985 the committee reorganized as the Madison Anti-Apartheid Coalition. Includes material of the Free Namibia Committee (Madison, WS).

Other name(s): Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa

Media: 1.6 cubic feet. (3 archives boxes, 3 card boxes, and 1 flat box), 10 photos, 10 transparencies

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Madison” in search box.

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Previous name: Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa (MACSA)

McHenry Jr., Dean E.

Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

Description: Papers of Dean E. McHenry Jr., professor of political science (1971- ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including a loose-leaf binder containing copies of letters, memoranda and newspaper clippings relating to university policy with respect to majority rule in South Africa and the apartheid system; South African investment policy challenges (1977-79); Board of Trustees investment policies, the Champaign-Urbana Coalition Against Apartheid (1978-79), public meetings, drives, rallies, elections and publicity.

Media: 0.3 cubic feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, 1608 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801 USA, (217) 333-0790, http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/index.html

Reference phone number: University Archives (217) 333-0798

Reference e-mail address: illiarch@uiuc.edu

Muste, A. J.

Description: A. J. Muste (1885-1967) was a pacifist leader and head of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was a founder of the American Committee on Africa. This collection contains a small amount of material related to Africa.

Catalog/Finding aid: A. J. Muste

Housed at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 U.S.A, (610) 328-8557, Fax: (610) 690-5728, http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/

Reference phone number: (610) 328-8557

Reference fax number: (610) 690-5728

Nesbitt, Prexy

Location: Chicago, Illinois and other locations

Summary: Papers: 1962-1993. Includes photos and negatives.

Description: Papers of Nesbitt, a Chicago-area activist, relating to his work as consultant for the Mozambique government and with United States organizations and projects concerning Southern Africa, and their links to related movements in Africa. Included are files relating to the Mozambique Support Network, the Mozambique Solidarity Office (Chicago, IL), the Coalition for Illinois' Divestment from South Africa, the Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (CCLAMG), the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and the World Council of Churches Program to Combat Racism and the Working Conference on Southern Africa (Madison, WI: 1975). There is also come material concerning Nesbitt's work in the Midwest as a union organizer and representative, teacher, and in community relations in the Chicago Mayor's Office. The papers include correspondence, tour and travel reports, conference and seminar papers, memoranda, and clippings. The photographs document people and events of projects in southern Africa, and also include images used in various organizations' newsletters.

Media: 7.4 cubic feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Nesbitt” in search box.

Restrictions: This collection may be used only with the written permission of Prexy Nesbitt until September 2, 2012, at which time the restriction may be extended for one additional period. Contact librarian.

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Nessen, William

Location: Berkeley, California and various

Summary: Papers: 1978-1995

Description: Papers of social activist/organizer William ("Billy") Nessen primarily documenting the anti-apartheid movement at the University of California-Berkeley during the 1980s, especially the sit-in at Sproul Hall. There is also information about the anti-apartheid movement in the community of Berkeley and on other campuses (mainly Cornell, Columbia, and City University of New York). Organizations included: American Committee on Africa, United People of Color, Campuses United Against Apartheid, the University of California Divestment Coalition, Campaign Against Apartheid, and the Steve Biko Coalition for Full Divestment.

Media: 1.4 cubic feet; 1 tape recording, and 10 photographs

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Nessen” in search box.

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Oberlin College Archive

Location: Oberlin, OH

Description: The Oberlin College Archives holds significant bodies of documentation relating to the apartheid and divestment questions. Oberlin College had a number of committees at the General Faculty and Board of Trustees level(s) that addressed these questions in particular and the African struggle for freedom in general. The bulk of our files date from 1977 to the early 1990s. This includes the Oberlin Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (OCLSA), c. 1979. The Oberlin Committee on Southern Africa (OCSA) was founded by Paul Irish in 1971, although the university archives may not have any material on this organization. OCSA gathered petitions in support of shareholder resolutions seeking the withdrawal of General Motors and Gulf Oil from South Africa and Angola. Numerous articles were published in the student newspaper, the Oberlin Review. The Oberlin Review is available on microfilm in the university library but it is not indexed.

Housed at: Oberlin College Archives, 420 Mudd Center, 148 West College Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074-1532 USA, (440) 775-8014, (440) 775-8016, http://www.oberlin.edu/archive

Reference phone number: (440) 775-8014

Reference fax number: (440) 775-8016

Randolph, A. Philip: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Timespan: 1949-1969 (Africa material)

Description: A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), was an African-American labor and civil right leader. He organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, most of whose members were African-America. He was a member of the Executive Committee of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR) which was founded in 1952 to support the Defiance Campaign Against Unjust Laws in South Africa. He was active in and served on the National Committee of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), which grew out of AFSAR. The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) was formed in 1962 with Randolph and Martin Luther King, Jr., as cochairmen; ANLCA went out of business in 1968. In 1966 Randolph headed the Committee on Conscience Against Apartheid formed by ACOA and the University Christian Movement to protest loans to South Africa by Chase Manhattan Bank and First National City Bank. Subject files related to Africa include:
American Committee on Africa, 1954-1969
American Negro Leadership Conference, 1962-1967
Americans for South African Resistance, 1952-1953
Correspondence, 1949-1968, n.d.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington, D.C. 20540-4680, (202) 707-5387, (202) 707-7791

Reference phone number: (202) 707-5387

Reference fax number: (202) 707-7791

Reference Web address: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-mss2.html

Reddy, E.S.

Summary: Papers and correspondence, 1939 - 2001

Description: The papers consist of correspondence and printed material relating to South Africa and Namibia and document E. S. Reddy's work with anti-apartheid organizations around the world. Includes materials related to numerous organizations including the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee, Episcopal Church People for a Free Southern Africa, Houstonians Against Apartheid, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa, New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid, Southern Africa Solidarity Coalition, Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network, Oregonians for Responsible State Investments, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, People of Southern African Freedom, People's Front for the Liberation of South Africa (Princeton), Sisters Against South African Apartheid, Southern Africa Committee, University Christian Movement, Washington Office of Africa, East Tennessee Committee Against Racism and Apartheid, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. Also included is material on Mahatma Gandhi and Indians in South Africa. Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy was born on July 1, 1924, in Pallaprolu, India. He received his B.A. from the University of Madras in 1943 and a M.A. from New York University in 1948. Reddy joined the United Nations Secretariat as a political affairs officer in 1949. From 1963-1965, Reddy was the principal secretary for the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid. He served as chief of the Section for African Questions from 1965-1976. In 1976 Reddy was appointed the director of the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, a position he held until 1983. During this time he also served as director of the U.N. Trust Fund for South Africa and the U.N. Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa. Reddy was the assistant secretary-general of the United Nations from 1983 until his retirement in 1985. Cite as E. S. Reddy Papers; call number MS 1499.

Additional link: E.S. Reddy page on ANC web site

Media: 55 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1744

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/refform.html

Robeson, Paul

Summary: Collection includes material relating to the Council on African Affairs, 1944 - 1955

Description: Paul Robeson, one of the preeminent figures in 20th century U.S. history, was an athlete, actor, singer and linguist as well as a Pan-African and progressive activist on many fronts. He was one of the founders and served as chairman of the Council on African Affairs. In the 1930s and 1940s he was probably one of the most widely known and respected Americans of any race around the world. After he was targeted for government repression in the McCarthy period, his name recognition was reduced and his influence marginalized. But his legacy is now being rediscovered by scholars and public interest is again rising, as reflected by the recent postage stamp in his honor.

The collection of material referenced here, related to the Council on African Affairs, is part of a large collection of Paul Robeson material. The material on the Council on African Affairs consists of correspondence, reports, resolutions, press releases and clippings. Correspondents in this sub-series include: Lord Halifax, British ambassador to Washington (1944); Edward Stettinius, chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations on the subject of colonial trusteeship, then under consideration in regard to the United Nations charter; the Natal Indian Congress in South Africa, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1894; Oliver Tambo, General Secretary of the African National Congress in South Africa (1954), and Mrs. Funmi Ransome Kuti, a Nigerian political activist and mother of the Afro-beat band leader Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Also included are two different drafts of Robeson's message to the Asian-African Conference in Bandung (Indonesia) in 1955 and related correspondence.

Additional link: Microfilm of this collection is available from LexisNexis, available in many libraries

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: (212) 491-2224

Reference fax number: (212) 491-2037

Reference e-mail address: scmarbref@nypl.org

Robinson, Cleveland (Papers)

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Papers, 1960-1992

Description: Cleveland Robinson (1914-1995) was an African American trade union leader and civil rights activist who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the United Auto Workers of America, District 65, from 1952-1992. The collection contains correspondence, miscellaneous documents, ephemera and clippings. General and Political Files, 1960-1992, provides a detailed picture of Robinson’s political interests and affiliations. Included are records of his involvement in anti-apartheid campaigns and organizations including the African National Congress, the American Committee on Africa, TransAfrica, the South Africa: Solidarity Conference (1981), Labor Committee against Apartheid, NY Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council, NY Anti-Apartheid Welcome Committee (Nelson Mandela visit to New York), and the Mandela Freedom Fund (1990-1993).

Catalog/Finding aid: Guide to the Cleveland Robinson Papers

Restrictions: Open for research without restrictions

Housed at: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA, Phone: (212) 998-2630, Fax: (212) 995-4225, http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

Reference phone number: (212) 998-2630

Reference fax number: (212) 995-4225

Reference e-mail address: gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/access.html

Rutgers Grass Roots - Progressive Activists Files

Location: Rutgers University, New Jersey

Summary: Includes material related to anti-apartheid and divestment activity (1969-1989, 1.2 cubic feet) including the Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation and the Rutgers Coalition for Total Divestment (RCTD)/Coalition for Total Divestment, (also referred to as the Coalition for Total Divestment).

Description: The Rutgers Grass Roots - Progressive Activist Files span the period 1921 to 1993, inclusive, while the bulk of the collection covers the years 1979-1993 and comprise the records of two student activists, Sue Kozel and Chris Berzinski, who continued their activist involvement after graduating from the University. Most of the files in the collection were created by Kozel and Berzinski as they became involved in numerous protest issues at Rutgers University. The divestment series (1969-1989, 1.2 cubic feet)
documents student and faculty activities in the fight against apartheid in South Africa and for divestiture of University funds from companies doing business in South Africa. The collection includes material related to the Rutgers student organization Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation (CISSAL), 1977-1978 (of which Chris Berzinski was a member) which opposed to apartheid and concerned with the divestiture of University funds from corporations doing business in South Africa. Material on CISSAL includes biographies, broadsides, legislation from New Jersey and Wisconsin, opinion pieces by Chris Berzinski, an outline by Chris Berzinski showing his CISSAL activities and asking to have them be made part of his field work, a petition, press releases and publications. This collection documents the origins of CISSAL and how it evolved from the Phil Shinnick Defense Committee, focusing on one faculty member's cause, into its pro-divestiture identity. The Rutgers Coalition for Total Divestment (RCTD)/Coalition for Total Divestment, (also referred to as the Coalition for Total Divestment), 1985 subseries documents the student, faculty, and alumni organization committed to the divestiture of University funds from corporations doing business in South Africa and the fight against apartheid. This subseries includes broadsides, correspondence, an informational packet concerning the group and a hunger strike, press releases and resolutions. The collection includes material generated by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Joint Investment Committee, Rutgers University Board of Governors (BOG), and the University Senate. Includes accounts of University common stock invested in corporations doing business in South Africa, clippings chronicling events in South Africa and the concerns and activities of Rutgers students and faculty fighting against apartheid and for divestment, correspondence, informational material, company investment records, legislation, opinion pieces, press releases, reports, including the student and faculty compilation, General Report to the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees, resolutions, and testimonies given by student activists Chris Berzinski and Sue Kozel before various University committees.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown, contact library in advance.

Housed at: Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163 USA, Phone: (732) 932-7006, Fax: (732) 932-7012, http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml

Reference phone number: (732) 932-7006

Reference fax number: (732) 932-7012

Reference e-mail address: fruscian@rci.rutgers.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/lib_servs/reference.shtml

Santana, Aracelly – Poster and T-shirt Collection

Description: Ms. Aracelly Santana was senior political advisor at the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid from 1981 to 1992. This is her personal collection of posters and T-shirts produced mostly by South African organizations such as the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliated unions and by the United Democratic Front (UDF) and its affiliates.

Restrictions: Not currently available. The archives have not yet been processed or fully accessed

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3770

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana

Selma Waldman, Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid (SCCA)

Description: Selma Waldman is a Seattle based graphic artist and activist. She was involved in the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid in the 1980s. Waldman was also involved iwith the Liberation Support Movement (LSM). Includes other material collected by Waldman when living in various locations. Material deposited by Selma Waldman.

Catalog/Finding aid: Find aid: Click here

Restrictions: Library use only - contact MSU Library in advance

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3700 or (517) 432-6123 ext. 237 or ext. 239

Reference fax number: (517) 432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

Shore, Herbert: Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane

Summary: Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane

Description: During the 1960s, Herbert Shore (1922-2004) was invited to develop theater programs at several African universities. His work led to close associations with prominent writers and revolutionary leaders. His most enduring connection was with Eduardo Mondlane (Oberlin Class of 1953), founding president of Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (FRELIMO). With the help of Mrs. Janet Mondlane and others, Shore collected material relating to Mondlane’s life. Eventually Shore donated these materials to the Oberlin College Archives. For his work on behalf of Mozambique, Shore was honored with the Bagamoyo Medal in 1989. He was an honorary member of the African National Congress. Subgroup II consists of the material collected by Herbert Shore relating to Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, and Africa. The most significant resource on Eduardo Mondlane in this subgroup is the microfilm in Series 6. This set of microfilm, done in 1996, contains correspondence (primarily post 1962) and writings of Janet and Eduardo Mondlane. Also included is material (1950-1989) including correspondence, publications, and interviews concerning the Mondlanes, FRELIMO, and the Mozambique Institute. Correspondents include George Houser, Herbert Shore, Africa Today editor Edward A. Hawley (who studied at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology), Oberlin Professor George Simpson, and FRELIMO leaders Uria Simango and Marcellino Dos Santos. Each of the seven microfilm reels includes an inventory of its contents, and paper copies of the inventory are also in this series.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Guide

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory - Subgroup I. Historical Files relating to Herbert Shore’s interests in the Arts and Culture

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory - Subgroup II. Historical Files collected by Shore on Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, and Africa

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: Oberlin College Archives, 420 Mudd Center, 148 West College Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074-1532 USA, (440) 775-8014, (440) 775-8016, http://www.oberlin.edu/archive

Reference phone number: (440) 775-8014

Reference fax number: (440) 775-8016

Reference Web address: http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/contact/form/index.html

South Africa Now, Globalvision

Location: New York, NY

Summary: South Africa Now Collection, 1978-1994 (inclusive), 1988-1991 (bulk). The collection consists of ca. 2600 videotapes and selected paper files relating to the production of the television program, South Africa Now.

Description: The collection consists of videotapes and a small number of transcripts, log books, and publicity files relating to the television program South Africa Now, produced by Globalvision from 1988 to 1991. South Africa Now was produced in cooperation with The Africa Fund, which served as fiscal sponsor and provided guidance on African political issues. The collection includes a nearly complete run of tapes of the ca. 150 newscasts produced during the three year run of the program as well as ca. 2000 tapes of interviews, short reports, documentaries, stock footage, and other footage used in the program's production. The collection includes visual documentation of the final years of apartheid in South Africa and includes interviews with and other significant footage of anti-apartheid leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Walter Sisulu, Albertina Sisulu, Albie Sachs, Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki, Allan Boesak, Oliver Tambo, Beyers Naude, and many others. It also documents the activities of the South African government and its leaders, particularly P.W. Botha and F. W. DeKlerk. Many organizations also receive extensive coverage, such as the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and the South-West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO). Many editions of the program included the segment "Frontline Focus," which reported the news in the southern African states of Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. South Africa Now produced at least one cultural segment per show. The collection, therefore, contains footage of South African artists, playwrights, musicians, authors, and filmmakers, including Athol Fugard, Hugh Masakela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mzwakhe Mbuli, Johnny Klegg, Gcina Mhlopher, Peter Magubane, and Nadine Gordimer. Finally, the collection documents the activities of the international anti-apartheid movement that put political and economic pressure on South Africa to end the system of apartheid. Globalvision was co-founded by award-winning journalists Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter.

Media: videotapes and papers, 182 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Preliminary Guide to the South Africa Now Collection

Restrictions: Copyright has been transferred to Yale University for Series I and Series XVIII. Researchers should consult the reference archivist for copyright information regarding the rest of the collection. Original videotapes, as well as preservation masters and duplicating masters, may not be played. Researchers needing to consult the original materials should refer to the finding aid for policies governing reproduction for access.

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1744

Reference fax number: (203) 432-7441

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

Current name: Globalvision

Current address: 575 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2200, New York, NY 10018

Current phone number: (212) 246-0202

Current fax number: (212) 246-2677

Current e-mail address: roc@globalvision.org

Current Web address: http://www.globalvision.org/

Southern Africa Liberation Committee, Patricia L. Beeman collection

Location: East Lansing, Michigan

Summary: Papers, documents, videos, book, 1973-1997

Description: The Patricia L. Beeman Southern Africa Liberation Committee collection documents the work of the Southern Africa Liberation Committe