Word: afsar
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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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...
George M. Houser, secretary of AFSAR, expresses great hope for the future of the nonviolent resistance movement. "One cannot underestimate the effect that the campaign in South Africa may have on the rest of Africa. If it has any measure of success, it will have importance far beyond the borders of South Africa. It may help to temper the terrorism of the Mau Mau group in Kenya. It will give new hope to nonviolent efforts for independence in West Africa. It could lead to a democratic, pan-African movement for freedom based on nonviolence. This would be of great significance...
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