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An anti-apartheid protest by students at the entrance to the Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University, New York City, 4th April 1984. - Barbara Alper/Getty Images
Organized by the National Peace Action Coalition and the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice to protest the U.S.'s increased bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of N.V. harbors. Demonstration draws between 8,000 and 15,000 protesters. 1972 – May 27 March to protest apartheid in South Africa: 8,000–10,000 attendees. [14] 1973 ...
And it was over apartheid in South Africa. Lawrence Hamm, who was among the protesters, said students had rallied against apartheid for 66 consecutive days before storming the building.
The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by writers and activists such as Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert Luthuli .
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These protests, some taking place on Florida campuses, are nothing new, but instead part of a long tradition of civil disobedience that is a hallmark of our university systems and the U.S. more ...
Columbia University officials did not respond to an email asking about the school’s position on the legacy of the 1968 events. Those events, like the current protest, “sparked a huge increase in student activism around the country,” Mark Rudd, a leader of that protest, said in an email to The Associated Press.
Many of the images were of rallies or protests, instances of authority brutality, and impoverished areas. Kylie Thomas suggests that the history of social documentary photography in the Afrapix period is probably more complex and heterogenous than often suggested, especially when analysing the work of women photographers such as Gille De Vlieg ...