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  2. Anti-Apartheid Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Apartheid Movement was instrumental in initiating an academic boycott of South Africa in 1965. The declaration was signed by 496 university professors and lecturers from 34 British universities to protest against apartheid and associated violations of academic freedom.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Music in the movement against apartheid - Wikipedia

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    Writing in the Inquiries Journal, scholar Michela Vershbow writes that although the music of the anti-apartheid movement could not and did not create social change in isolation, it acted as a means of unification, as a way of raising awareness of apartheid, and allowed people from different cultural background to find commonality. [4]

  5. Boycotts, rallies and Free Mandela: UK anti-apartheid ... - AOL

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    The British Anti-Apartheid Movement was founded 60 years ago. Here's why it remains as relevant today as in its heyday. Boycotts, rallies and Free Mandela: UK anti-apartheid movement created a ...

  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. Even right here in Florida, similar gatherings took place across the state during the 1980s related to the anti-apartheid movement and calls for divestment for universities with ties to companies ...

  8. 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

  9. Factbox-From apartheid to Gaza, consumer boycotts have hit ...

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    * Universities in the United States and Britain's Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) encouraged people in Britain and the United States to boycott products made in apartheid-era South Africa. The ...