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...Assembly position opposing the renaming contends that Engelhard opposed apartheid and supported the political campaigns of former President John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert F. Kennedy '48, and that the Engelhard Foundation has given money to the United Negro Fund, the National Urban League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...argument against renaming the library states, "All claims against Charles Engelhard are based on a single article from the now-defunct Ramparts magazine; no confirmation of the smears made against him has been forthcoming simply because none exists...
Today, tomorrow and Wednesday the Student Assembly will distribute questionnaires asking student opinion on a number of campus issues. The articles on this page examine four of those issues. Should Harvard University take whatever steps are necessary to change the name of the Engelhard Library...
...Charles Engelhard was the leading American financial patron of the apartheid regime for over two decades and the record of his dealings in South Africa is well documented. among others, one can point to The New York Times, March 24, 1969, Dec. 24, 1969, The Star (Johannesburg), September 1970. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of $20 million into a $250 million fortune through his control of 15 per cent of the South African gold mining industry. South African gold miners earn on an average less than half the official South African poverty wage level and an average of three miners...
...aftermath of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, in which South African police murdered 67 unarmed blacks, Engelhard organized the American bank loans which salvaged the South African economy. He personally owned 23 South African corporations (see Africa Today and Forbes). Engelhard served as an administrator of the migrant labor system which brutally separates black families. He was the only foreigner ever top sit on the boards of the Witwatersrand Native Labor Association and the Native Recruiting Agency, two government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in the mines (see Ruth First, The South African Connection...