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  2. Anti-apartheid movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...

  3. Free South Africa Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) was a coalition of individuals, organizations, students, and unions across the United States of America who sought to end Apartheid in South Africa. [1] With local branches throughout the country, it was the primary anti-Apartheid movement in the United States.

  4. Anti-Apartheid Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) was a British organisation that was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African apartheid system and supporting South Africa's non-white population who were oppressed by the policies of apartheid. [1]

  5. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761 (XVII)

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    Even so, the committee found allies in the West, such as the British-based Anti-Apartheid Movement, through which it could work and lay the ground roots for the eventual acceptance by the Western powers of the need to impose economic sanctions on South Africa to pressure for political changes. [2

  6. ‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’: The anti-apartheid ...

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    An untitled, undated photograph of a Black man holding a copy of "Muhammad Speaks," the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam. The image, taken by South African photographer Ernest Cole, is ...

  7. Campus protests today parallel Florida colleges’ role in anti ...

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    Leaders of the local anti-apartheid movements could participate, ask questions and build strategies for the coming years, and help increase support for H.T. Smith’s “Coalition for Free South ...

  8. Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act - Wikipedia

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    The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 [1] was a law enacted by the United States Congress. The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid , which the latter was under at the time.

  9. South Africa’s democracy is turning 30 – but a silent crisis ...

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    - Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Soweto uprisings, as they have become known, changed the trajectory of the anti-apartheid movement, and set South Africa on the eventual path of liberation.