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Police eventually held back the crowds to relocate Hoppenstein, which resulted in 20 students filing charges of police brutality.

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

The rally quickly dissolved into chaos as student organizers lost control of non-Harvard protestors who joined the demonstration. The sound of shattering glass reverberated through the courtyard, panicking the crowds gathered there. According to an article written at the time, students blockaded Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Common Room...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Students from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) staged the protest as part of their efforts to push President Derek C. Bok to divest Harvard’s endowment from companies conducting business with the apartheid government in South Africa.

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Though Harvard never fully divested from South Africa, the protests forced the administration to grapple with its role in indirectly financing the apartheid regime, and made a deep impression on the student participants, who said their lives were shaped by the turbulent events.

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Anti-apartheid protests began in Cambridge as early as the 1970s and steadily gained momentum, leading to a student take-over of Bok’s office and a torchlight parade in opposition to Harvard’s investments in South Africa in 1978.

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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