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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 8, Mercia Andrews, the national organizer for the South African Workers' Organization for Socialist Action (WOSA), spoke at Harvard. An article in The Crimson described Andrews as a "white South African" (March 9). Apparently, The Crimson reporter guessed Andrews' race judging from her skin color, but Andrews is not white. She is officially classified by the South African government as Black and referred several times during her talk to Black South Africans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insulting Misidentification | 3/13/1992 | See Source »

...reporting error, The Crimson--in a March 9 article, described Mercia Andrews, the national organizer of the South African Workers' Organization for Socialist Action, as a "white South African." She is Black. The Crimson regrets this error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRECTIONS | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...Mercia Andrews, a South African teacher and organizer for the Worker's Organization for Socialist Action (WOSA) spoke to an audience of 40 in Boylston Auditorium...

Author: By John H. Boit, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: South African Teacher Urges Rejection of Negotiations | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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