Found 14 collections related to Apartheid -- South Africa

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 3, 1926, Joel Carlson was a lawyer who devoted his legal career to opposing apartheid. Through the 1960s and 1970s he developed a reputation for defending black South Africans in a variety of cases including removal from homelands, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture cases, and pass law violations. Carlson eventually opened his won civil rights practice, exposing apartheid atrocities, which made him a target among government officials and the South African police. After years of harassment and numerous threats against his life, Carlson left Johannesburg in 1971, relocating to New York. In 1994, Carlson revisited South Africa, serving as a United Nations observer in the country's first free elections. He died of leukemia in Manhaset, New York, in 2001. Joel Carlson South African Legal Files, 1958 - 1990, chronicle Carlson's legal career in South Africa through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Modeling Carlson's own mapping of his life and career in No Neutral Ground, the collection highlights the kinds of cases that Carlson understood to define his anti-apartheid work: prison abuse investigations and the defense of political detainees, as well as his representation of Winnie Mandela and members of her family. Primarily organized chronologically by case type and individual case, the collection consists largely of correspondence, legal documents relating to trials and defendants, and news clippings. less

The Tyrone Pitts/NCC Papers are devoted primarily to the work of Tyrone Pitts as the NCC's Director for Racial Justice. This position was in the NCC's Division of Church and Society which was headed by Kenyon Burke. Pitts' role in the Racial Justice Working Group and the Ecumenical Minority Bail Bond Fund are particularly well documented. less

The Arthur Ashe papers document the wide range of Ashe's political, athletic, business, and philanthropic activities. Although they contain some significant material from the 1960s and 1970s, the papers are concentrated more heavily on Ashe's activities following his retirement from competitive tennis in 1980. less

This collection consists of J. Wayne Fredericks's personal papers (biographical information, correspondence, military materials, etc.); materials related to his careers at various institutions (mainly, the Kellogg Company, his first stint at the Ford Foundation, the State Department, his second stint at the Ford Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank; and Ford Motor Company); materials on his post-retirement consultancies; information on the various boards for which he served; materials related to his wife, Anne (nee Curtis) Fredericks; and subject and country files (mostly printed matter). 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

Jean Frances Herskovits (1935-2019) was a historian and educator of African history with a focus on Nigeria. The collection, dated 1920 to 2018, documents her scholarly research of the economic and political changes that were happening in West and Southern Africa. The files include correspondence, subject files, writings, printed matter, reports, speeches, maps, letters to her parents, calendars, and journals. 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

E.S. Reddy was Director of the United Nations Centre against Apartheid, from 1976 to 1983. Conference papers and publications of the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. The collection documents several conferences, birthday celebrations, memorial tributes, and other commemorative events organized by the United Nations Special Committee Aginst Apartheid in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, Frantz Fanon, and W.E.B. DuBois. Also included are statements and addresses by Chief Albert Luthuli of the Afrcan National Congress, and several articles by E.S. Reddy. less

The Southern Africa Committee (SAC) was an American collective of anti-apartheid activists and scholars who led Southern Africa, a New York City-based monthly magazine discussing liberation and decolonization movements primarily in Southern Africa. The Southern Africa Committee collection comprises research files, administrative files, articles, and correspondence related to Southern Africa and the SAC's anti-apartheid activism. 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