Dennis Brutus papers, 1959-1970 (inclusive), [microform].

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Dennis Brutus papers, 1959-1970 (inclusive), [microform].

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, and other papers of Dennis Brutus, South African sportsman, author, and political activist concerning segregated sports and apartheid in South Africa. Other material collected by Brutus concerns his activities in such organizations as the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee and the First Pan African Cultural Festival held in Algiers in 1968.

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South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee

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Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009

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Born in 1924, Dennis Brutus is a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. He founded the South African Sports Association in 1961 and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) in 1963, and was subsequently arrested and jailed, placed under house arrest, and banned from all literary, academic and political activities. He went into exile in 1966 and has lived in the Un...

First Pan African Cultural Festival (1968 : Algiers)

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