Records of the American Committee on Africa, 1952-1985 (inclusive), [microform].

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Records of the American Committee on Africa, 1952-1985 (inclusive), [microform].

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The records summarize the entire range of ACOA activities in the United States and abroad, including its lobbying, educational work and foreign student exchange programs, organization of boycotts, sponsoring of conferences, and development of an anti-apartheid network within the U.S.

51 reels.

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American committee on Africa

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The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was formed in 1953 as the successor to Americans for South African Resistance, then a two-year-old group formed to support the campaign of nonviolent protests against apartheid led by the African National Congress. ACOA broadened the original scope to include anticolonial struggles throughout the continent. It worked on many fronts: monitoring racist stereotyping in the media; lobbying the State Department and United Nations to adopt anti-apartheid, anti-c...