Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brown sits alone in the headquarters of the Voter Education Project, surrounded by history. The run-down house near the mostly black Atlanta University Complex is littered with cardboard cartons stuffed with records that date back to 1962, when America's homegrown version of apartheid reigned throughout the South and all but a handful of blacks were denied the right to vote. Today, thanks largely to VEP'S unheralded support of grass-roots voter- registration and education drives, 5.5 million Southern blacks have registered and the number of black elected officials in the region has exploded from less than...
...first time in its seven-year history, Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) did not nominate candidates for the Board of Overseers this year...
...look forward to the day when democracy is areality in south Africa, and Harvard can be urgedto pursue a course of socially responsibleinvestment to address the economic inequalitiescreated by apartheid," she wrote...
...Wolff said," The world has changed in sucha way that divestment is not longer a centralelement in the struggle against apartheid...
...case of the former Soviet Union, South Africa needs help. The economy, once Africa's strongest (in spite of the horrendously inefficient apartheid system) is reeling under the blows of Western economic sanctions, Western divestment, desertion by South African capital and skilled professionals, and a population growth rate that far outstrips growth in the gross rational product...