Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...determination in the fight against South Africa's white-minority government. He fires the pride of African Americans and touches a deep desire in the psyche of Americans both black and white for a leader who might rekindle the biracial coalition that destroyed their country's own version of apartheid a generation ago, then fell apart during the long, hot summers...
Like a media-savvy pol -- and a single-minded revolutionary -- Mandela repeated at every opportunity his simple line that because apartheid is still alive and well, it is too soon to reward Pretoria for the reforms De Klerk has made, some of which are more cosmetic than real. Mandela can also hope to return home with several million dollars in new contributions to the A.N.C. In New York a $2,500-a-ticket fund raiser hosted by Eddie Murphy, Spike Lee and Robert De Niro aimed to raise $500,000 from a celebrity crowd that included Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward...
...joyous reception of Mandela was also a rite of self-congratulation for the American civil rights activists who have used the struggle in South Africa as a rallying cry. Such leaders had started to make connections with the battle against apartheid long ago. The American Committee on Africa, the first antiapartheid organization in the U.S., was created in 1953. But it was during the 1980s that civil rights activists discovered in the fight to free Mandela an effort they could throw themselves into with gusto -- and little moral ambiguity...
That discovery came at a time when the Reagan Administration treated the civil rights agenda with indifference, if not outright hostility, and the movement had become fractured over intractable disagreements about increasingly abstract concerns like affirmative action. By comparison, apartheid was an issue as clear-cut and compelling -- and televisable -- as a segregated lunch counter in Birmingham. It offered a focal point for the inchoate resentments many felt of the greed and selfishness spawned during the Reagan years...
...antiapartheid campaign. On Thanksgiving eve, TransAfrica's Robinson; Walter Fauntroy, congressional delegate for the District of Columbia; and Mary Frances Berry, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, paid a visit to the South African embassy in Washington and refused to leave until Mandela was released and apartheid dismantled. They were arrested...