Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Children danced triumphantly at the door of the small red brick house in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. Neighbors and friends greeted its famous resident with joyous tears and welcoming hugs. For the first time in nine years, Winnie Mandela, a leading antiapartheid activist and the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, enjoyed a privilege that most take for granted: the right to enter her own home...
...Following moves by some courts to invalidate banning orders recently, a government prosecutor last week announced that the state was abandoning its efforts to enforce the restrictions on Mandela. Though technically the ban had not been lifted, no attempts were made to prevent Mandela from returning to Soweto. The activist, 51, was unsentimental about the government's action. "It was my right to be at home," said Mandela. "No one is grateful for a right that is rightfully ours...
...upsurge in killings may be the first in a new series of violent confrontations in the embattled country. Black activist groups were planning a meeting in Durban last weekend that could result in renewed boycotts of schools. In an effort to squelch future civil disobedience, Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange declared that, as of April 1, all such meetings would be forbidden under the Internal Security...
Four Eighth Congressional District candidates attended an anti-apartheid protest yesterday afternoon, joining more than 500 of what O'Neil has described as "flaming, liberal, social planning, activist do-gooders." Melvin I. King, State Sen. George Bachrach, Gallagher, and Socialist Jon Hillson attended the rally on Boston Common...
...Harvard should [fund this proposal] to make reparations for nwhat it has done to the community in the past," says local activist William Cunningham, referring to the University's reputation for numerous land acquisitions during the '60s and '70s. Harvard, the Cambridge resident says, "has a false reputation for being willing to do things for the community out of its own pocket." Cunningham says the St. Paul's project is an opportunity for the University to do something beneficial, useful and tangible for a community gouged by Harvard's expansion toward the center of Cambridge. He hopes students will rally...