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Apartheid -- South Africa

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, 1956-2012

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1000.03
Introduction

The Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection was assembled through the efforts of Dr. Lisa Brock, a faculty member of Columbia College Chicago and a seminal force in the local anti-apartheid movement. This collection highlights the grassroots organizations during the 1980s and 1990s that formed to protest international issues of apartheid and how they operated to reach a common goal.

Dates: 1956-2012

Rozell (Prexy) Nesbitt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 1000.03.01
Introduction An activist and an educator, he organized anti- apartheid groups in the Midwest; was named director of the Africa Project at the Institute of Policy Studies; and served as program director and research secretary at the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland. In 1986, he returned to Chicago as a labor organizer and later served as special aide to then Chicago mayor Harold Washington and the Mozambique government appointed him consultant to represent the country and its interests in...
Dates: 1928 - 2005