Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa records
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
- Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa (Charlotte, N.C.) (Organization)
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.
Subject
- Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa (Charlotte, N.C.) (Organization)
- 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
Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte NC 28223 United States
spec-coll@uncc.edu