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Students from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) staged the protest as part of their efforts to push President Derek C. Bok to divest Harvard’s endowment from companies conducting business with the apartheid government in South Africa...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...April 4, 1985, about 5,000 students gathered in Harvard Yard for a protest organized by SASC, which had invited Reverend Jesse I. Jackson to speak to the riled crowds. Jackson had written a letter to Bok a month earlier in which he urged the University to divest...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Silvers said that his current work often focuses on issues related to capital markets and companies’ investment decisions, similar to the case in urging Harvard to divest...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Though Harvard refused to divest completely from South Africa, the University decided to establish a fellowship for black South Africans to spend a year at Harvard in 1979.  After graduation Winslow and one of the South African fellows, Mary Jane Morifi, traveled throughout South Africa “not only to meet activists and academics, but to see how apartheid impacted the lives of ordinary black people...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

They said Faust advised them to write a letter about the issue, which she said she would present to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. The students said they believed that Faust’s acknowledgement that Harvard did not move quickly to divest from South Africa during Apartheid boded well for their cause...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Students Share Ideas with Faust | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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