Alexander Defense Committee records, 1962-1971 (inclusive), [microform].

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Alexander Defense Committee records, 1962-1971 (inclusive), [microform].

The records document the work of the Alexander Defense Committee. The collection primarily reflects the work of Robert and Berta Green Langston, corresponding and executive secretaries of the U.S. chapter, and contains correspondence, newsclippings, newsletters, promotional materials for national speaking tours, as well as personal writings of speakers. Also included are records of individual ADC chapters that operated in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

3 reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6803341

Yale University Library

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Tabata, I.B.

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Alexander Defense Committee

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The Alexander Defense Committee (ADC) was an international organization which was established to protest South African apartheid and to assist South African political prisoners and their families. The event that spurred the formation of the ADC was the arrest in July 1963 in Cape Town of Dr. Neville Alexander, a young black literary scholar, and ten other South Africans. All were charged with the crime of opposition to the government and its policy of apartheid, and with membership in the Nation...

Alexander, Neville

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Lee, Franz J. T., 1938-

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Tsotsi, W.M.

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Langston, Robert

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Langston, Berta Green.

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