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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 ...
TransAfrica Forum is a research, education, and advocacy center dedicated to global justice for the African World. [2] TransAfrica envisions a world where Africans and people of African descent are self-reliant, socially and economically prosperous, and have equal access to a more just international system that strengthens independence and democracy.
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.
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]
[13] The organisation said that it adopted and advocated the strategy of ungovernability in 1984 and 1985 out of the recognition that the anti-apartheid struggle had reached "a critical stage". [14] The apartheid state largely subscribed to the notion that ungovernability was a coordinated strategy instigated and overseen by the ANC and its allies.
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 ...
South Africa’s apartheid ended in the early 1990s. ‘Symbols have power’ Since that time, student activists have successfully pushed Columbia to divest from several other areas.
anti-apartheid organizer, advocate, first black archbishop of Cape Town: Barbara Gittings: 1932 2007 United States: lesbian rights activist Dick Gregory: 1932 2017 United States: free speech advocate, civil rights activist, comedian Lola Hendricks: 1932 2013 United States: activist, local leader in Birmingham Movement: Miriam Makeba: 1932 2008 ...