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Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa records

 Collection — Box: SFC3 [F09.090.03.01], Folder: 284
Identifier: MS0284

Scope and Contents

Records of a local anti-apartheid organization formed in 1985 by residents of Charlotte (N.C.), who were "concerned about the ongoing crisis in South Africa and neighboring countries." The organization sponsored a number of events, protested loans by local businesses to the South African government, and invited visits by speakers who would "share insights and information with citizens of our community." Contains correspondence, flyers, programs, meeting and event notices, memoranda, minutes, news clippings, photographs, schedules, statements, and miscellaneous publications. Brochure digitized from private collection of Lyndall Hare, a former member of Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa: http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-2051-84-LH%20CFFSA%20brochure%20opt.pdf

Dates

  • Creation: 1988 - 1993

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.

Biographical / Historical

Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa (CFSA) was formed in March 1985 by residents of the Charlotte/Mecklenburg community, state of North Carolina. CFSA was a non-profit membership organization that sought support for the struggle against racist minority rule known as apartheid by making information about Southern Africa available to the community and raised funds to aid refugees, political prisoners and their families who were victims of apartheid. CFSA organized a number of events, including a spring 1985 rally and petition drive to get North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) to stop making loans to South Africa, a vigil later that year expressing solidarity with political prisoners and detainees, and a rally supporting divestment. CFSA sponsored several speakers, including the representative to the United Nations of SWAPO (Southwest Africa People’s Organization), a leader of the End Conscription Campaign that opposed the draft in South Africa, and an exiled union leader formerly active in organizing black South African automobile workers. One of CFSA’s most widely attended events was a spring 1986 poetry reading by renowned South African poet Dennis Brutus. The organization raised funds through the sale of books and other materials to aid political prisoners and their families. Work in 1987 included a fundraising campaign to benefit the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (1 file folder)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Records of a local anti-apartheid organization formed in 1985 by residents of Charlotte (N.C.), who were "concerned about the ongoing crisis in South Africa and neighboring countries." The organization sponsored a number of events, protested loans by local businesses to the South African government, and invited visits by speakers who would "share insights and information with citizens of our community."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Erin Winslow, 1997.

Processing Information

Processed by James Kusik, 2001.

Title
Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa records
Status
Completed
Author
James Kusik.
Date
2001
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte Repository

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Charlotte NC 28223 United States

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