Word: anti-apartheid
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...those classically under-staffed, under-resourced African schools.” During this time she hitchhiked around nearby South Africa with her former Harvard roommate, Leslie Rabinobitz ’78. She also covered South Africa as a freelance journalist, bringing her closer to the anti-apartheid movement...
Klug joined Seidman at Berkeley, and only days later, South African authorities raided Botswana, killing anti-apartheid activists. She received condolence letters for weeks from people thinking Klug had been killed in the massacre...
While working on her Ph.D., Seidman became much more active in the American anti-apartheid movement, traveling the country speaking at college campuses. This did not, however, deter her from going to South Africa during a state of emergency to do field research for her dissertation—a comparative study of labor unions in the democratic opposition in Brazil and South Africa...
...says she thought she was going to “walk straight into jail,” but the South African authorities failed to connect Seidman with her anti-apartheid activities. She maintains that this “only goes to show that repressive regimes are not as organized as they’d like to think they...
...this, Seidman was elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1986 on a pro-divestment platform. It was a time-consuming commitment for a Ph.D. candidate and anti-apartheid activist to take on, but she agreed to try because Harvard’s stance on divestment was used as a model for universities across the country. In her six years as an overseer, she was not able to get Harvard to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa, but her term paved the way for the election of Bishop Desmond Tutu and others sympathetic...