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