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The African Studies Center records contain reports for 1960-1965 on the center’s activities as well as a report on the first summer program in African languages for 1962. There are also program brochures and a program description, memo on the future of the center, and a teaching plan to eliminate racism, two issues of a student journal, and grant applications. Other materials include reports, publications and conference reports about politics and education in Africa, as well as a guide to...
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The Carol Thompson and Bud Day papers document the struggle for the liberation of Southern Africa. A significant portion of the collection is background materials used for researching and organizing the liberation support network across the US and the world. The files also demonstrate some of the tactics used, including picketing, demonstrating, speaking, boycotting, and appearing on the media. The collection includes material on the Southern Africa Support Coalition (SASC), founded in...
The Henry Lieberg papers contain reports, mailings, brochures, meeting notes, and photographs relating to activism against South African exports of coal and Rhodesia exports of chrome.
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The collection consists largely of primary sources from 1958 to the 1990s, assembled between the 1970s and 1990s and used by Sister Janice McLaughlin, an American Catholic nun of the Maryknoll Sisters, for her book, On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. Harare: Baobab Books. 1996, and her dissertation, "The Catholic church and Zimbabwe's war of liberation :1972-1980", Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Zimbabwe, 1991, on which the book was based. Includes original...
The Richard Whitlow papers are digital copies of his geographic publications relating to Dambos, soil conservation and erosion, prehistoric and contemporary gullying, land degradation, deforestation, land use, mapping, and other related topics in Zimbabwe.
11 postcards and 7 stereoscopic photographs of life in Southern Africa. Topics covered include gold mining, African villages and people, agricultural laborers, politicians, and De Beers Mines in Kimberly, South Africa. Countries covered include South Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and many unknown locations. The photographs are from approximately 1900-1910. Many of the stereoscopic photographs are dated 1901 and printed in England.
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The Vincent Klingler papers contain reports, fliers, correspondence, photographs and mailings relating to Klingler's activism as Chairperson of the Coalition to Stop Rhodesian and South African Imports, the United People’s Campaign against Apartheid and Racism (UPCAAR), and the Philadelphia Coalition for Justice in Angola. Topics include U. S. longshoremen and dock worker strikes against unloading Rhodesian exports of chrome, asbestos, and nickel on the "African Neptune" and "African Sun,"...
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Majority of material found within 1973 - 1978