Found 8 collections related to Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa

A rare collection of 12 typed letters signed by Steve Biko, written to the Chief Magistrate of King William's Town between May 16, 1973 and July 19, 1977, just weeks before Biko's death in police custody. The collection also includes 9 carbon copy responses/handwritten memos from the magistrate relating to Biko's requests. This collection of letters shows an increasingly exasperated Biko bravely challenging the petty demands of the apartheid regime. less

Headed by E.S. (Enuga Sreenivasulu) Reddy, the United Nations (UN) Centre Against Apartheid was a unit within the UN Secretariat responsible for promoting awareness and action against the apartheid regime in South Africa. The collection consists of seven commercially released vinyl records related to apartheid in South Africa, some of which were produced in cooperation with the UN Centre Against Apartheid. less

The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was a grassroots anti-apartheid movement that emerged in South Africa in the late 1960s led by Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid student activist. The South Africa Black Consciousness Movement audio collection consists of forty-eight audio recordings, primarily of interviews with activists, as well as public events, speeches, talks, and music. less

Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933-September 29, 2000) was an actress, best known for her roles as Sadie Delany in the play Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years (1995) and as the Oracle in The Matrix (1999). The collection consists of sixty-one audio recordings and forty-seven videos relating to Foster's career, research materials for an unproduced miniseries on Winnie Mandela, items featuring her frequent collaborators Camille and Bill Cosby, and other collected recordings. less