Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People around here aren't aware of the University's involvement in corporations and banks with dealings in South Africa," Stillman said. "Members of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Over- are officials of U.S. companies involved directly with the South African government and South African business." For example, he said one of the factors of the First National Bank of Boston is a University Overseer...
...charges that U.S. business has create a booming South African economy "based on oppression...
...group meetings and campuses in the area, in addition to the immediate focus of the campaign: international demonstrations on March 19, two days before the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. The increased U.S. capital inflow in loans and direct investment was largely responsible for making the South African economy prosperous after the severe recession after Sharpeville...
...centered around the First National Bank of Boston, Kendall, United Shoe Machinery and Chrysler Corporation--and offices of Massachusetts senators and congressmen. The specific places are symbolic of the international consortiums of banks, the 200 large U.S. companies, and the gross government inaction that have permitted the South African government to continue its bloody and oppressive practices. On the same day demonstrations will take place in New York, Baltimore, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Canada, England, Germany, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Join the protest campaign: the call to conscience has been heard, the time for action come. Nat Stillman...
...state visit to Mozambique by the president of Portugal, Americo Thomas, Sigauke slipped out of Lourenco Marques and across the border into Swaziland where he was met by Frelimo agents. A few days later Sigauke and his friends daringly recrossed the border and stood smiling in a crowd of African peasants as Amerigo Thomas rode past. "Of course we could have shot him," said Sigauke...