Word: segregationism
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DIED. C.F. BEYERS NAUDE, 89, white South African cleric who reversed his support of apartheid in the early 1960s to become a leading opponent of racial segregation; in Johannesburg. Naude, a cleric in the Dutch Reformed Church, which provided religious justifications of apartheid, began to question the state's policy...
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Bok vocally denounced this institutionalized segregation, supporting U.S. anti-apartheid efforts. Harvard professors also avoided ties with South Africa. But the Corporation’s holdings of stock in U.S. companies with plants and operations in South Africa prompted student protests throughout the 1970s.
Since the mid-20th century, the South African Nationalist government had implemented an official policy of racial segregation and white supremacy, forcing over a million South Africans to move from urban to designated rural areas.
Ledecky wrote his senior thesis on the relationship between black civil rights leaders and white businesspeople in 1960’s Atlanta. But even this academic interest traced back to extracurricular involvement, as it led him to work with then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps on the Harvard Committee...