Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bostonians Allied for South African Resistance, a group which was formed only this year but which is quickly rising to prominence, is an organization with a membership of over 200, many of whom are from Harvard, Radcliffe, and other colleges in the Boston area...
BAFSAR, as it is better known, in the local Boston committee of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR). In many ways it aids the large numbers of African men and women who are trying to achieve freedom not by a bitter racial war, but through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance against South African Jim Crow laws...
Civil disobedience is the keynote of the movement. Every week, hundreds of volunteers in South Africa defy the segregation laws and go to jail for it. They cross bridges, enter movie theatres, trains, and restaurants which are "For Europeans only." This campaign is led by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress. Manilal Gandhi, son of the late Mahatma Gandhi, is currently in jail for disobeying segregation laws...
...nonviolent resistance movement is the first united campaign on a large scale waged by the non-Europeans in South Africa against the laws of segregation. It is the first time there has been any real cooperation between African, Indian, and Colored organizations...
...precedent set by Mahatma Gandhi: through the non-violent movements he led among the Indians was an important source of inspiration for the present movement. The campaign started December 15, 1951 when the African National Congress endorsed the plan for the movement...