1st Edition

Struggle for a Free South Africa Campus Anti-Apartheid Movements in Africa and the United States, 1960–1994

Edited By Derek Charles Catsam Copyright 2024
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores anti-apartheid movements on university and college campuses across Africa and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. In the wake of the March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa, the country’s apartheid policies drew increasing critical international attention. By the 1970s, South Africa found itself isolated due to growing sporting, economic and cultural boycotts.... Read more

Introduction: Anti-Apartheid Movements on Campus: Personal, Political, and Historical
Derek Charles Catsam

1. ‘Until the People Govern’: The Black Students’ Movement at Rhodes University in the 1980s
Katherine Gillam and Janeke Thumbran 

2. Anti-Apartheid Activism in Ghana’s Universities, 1960s-1980s
Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah

3. ‘Their Fight Was Our Fight’: A Brief Exploration of the Contribution of Nigerian Universities to the Anti-Apartheid Campaign in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s
Ini Dele-Adedeji

4. ‘It is the Principle Behind the Issue Which is Important and Sacred’: Kenyan Rugby and the 1980 University of Nairobi Campaign to End British Contact with Apartheid Sport
Michelle M. Sikes and Alfred Anangwe

5. “Divestment and Lemon Meringue Pie: Anti-Apartheid Movements at the University of Florida in Gainesville
Jacob Ivey

 6. Campus Activism at Yale: Fragmentary Memories and Reflections on the 1980s
Karin Shapiro, Dan Letwin, and Eric Arnesen

7. The Anti-Apartheid Movement at Grand Valley State College in West Michigan
Eric Covey

8. ‘North Texas Stopped Being a Spectator’: Anti-Apartheid Efforts at the University of North Texas
Lacy Noel Molina

9. ‘A Credible Undertaking’: Anti-Apartheid Activism at SUNY Brockport
Angela Thompsell

10. The higher morality: Students for a Democratic Society confronts apartheid
Eric Morgan

11. Archiving the US Campus anti-apartheid movement
Christine Root

Biography

Derek Charles Catsam is Professor of History and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas Permian Basin and is Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He has authored five previous books.