We say No to apartheid - A Declaration of American Artists

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Author/Creator American Committee on Africa Publisher American Committee on Africa Date 1965? Resource type Pamphlets Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) South Africa, United States Coverage (temporal) 1969 Source Africa Action Archive Rights By kind permission of Africa Action, incorporating the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and the Africa Policy Information Center. Description Artists. Civil and Human Rights. Discrimination. Apartheid. Political prisoners. Sculptors. Poets. Authors. Playwrights. Performing Artists. Format extent 3 page(s) (length/size)

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South Africa is the only country in the world where oppression, denial of civil and human rights, and discrimination in every walk of life -- based on color -- is legally enshrined in the Constitution and the law; The South African policy of apartheid has been attacked by nearly every nation in the world, and in almost every session of the United Nations since 1946, with no response from the South African Government except defiance, and- a steady increase in repressive, authoritarian measures; Under apartheid approximately 5,000-political pri soners now sit in South African jail cells; Under apartheid white miners earn approximately 15 times as much as Africans, and in secondary industry about 5 times as much; Under apartheid fifty percent of all African children are tubercular at the age of 10, due to malnutrition, and the general infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world: 200 to 400 per 1,000 for Africans, 27 per 1,000 for whites; Under apartheid the government subsidy for an African child's education amounts to $19.67 a year, for a white child's $196.70; Under apartheid those non-whites residing (because employed) in urban areas are not permitted to share in the cultural advantages available to whites -- may not visit art galleries, use the main public library, attend lectures, plays, or musical programs, or even the movies except in their own segregated areas, where the cultural fare is almost non-existent: Let it4 4beows. t4hat0 the following, do pledge ourselves to do all within our power -ARTISTS AND SCULPTORS . . . not to allow our work to be displayed in any South African exhibition; NOVELISTS, POETS, AND ESSAYISTS...... not to permit our books to be published in South Africa;

PLAYWRIGHTS ...... not to permit performances of our plays in South Africa; PERFORMING ARTISTS . . . . not to perform on the stage in South Africa, or to participate in making films in that country; COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, AND MUSICIANS ...... nt to conduct or perform music in South Africa, or to allow performances of our works there; FILM PRODUCERS ...... to prevent the showingof our films in the Republic of South Africa. we make the above pledge in solemn resolve to refuse any encouragement of, or indeed any personal or professional association with, the present Republic of South Africa: this until the day when all its people -- black and white -- shall equally enjoy the educational and cultura v aantages of this rich and lovely land. (List complete to October 18, 1965.) TO THIS SOLEM PLEDGE WE HEREBY SET OUR HANDS: Conrad Aiken (Author) Joan C. Baez (Singer) Bil and Cora Baird (Marionettes) Tallulah Bankhead (Actress) (Singer) Saul Bellow (Writer) konard Bernstein (Conductor-Comnoser) Leon Bibb (Singer-Actor) E. Power Biggs (Musician) Victor Borge (Entertainer) Oscar Brand (Singer-Writer) (Jazz Musician) (Actress) Paul Cadmus (Artist) (Actor-Comic) Carl Carmer (Author) Diahanne Carroll (Singer-Actress) Paddy Chayefsky (Writer) Jerome Chodorov (Playwright) John Ciardi (Poet) Marc Connelly (Playwright) Dorothy Dandridge (deceased)(Actress) (Actor) Sammy Davis, Jr. (Singer-Actor) Ruby Dee (Actress) (Pianist) (Actor) John Forsythe (Actor) James S. Garner (Actor) William Gibson (Playwright) E. Y. Harburg (Lyricist) (Actress) Van Heflin (Actor) Grenville Hicks (Writer) Jerome Hines (Opera Bass) Carmen de L. Holder (Dancer) Lena Home (Singer) (Author) Eartha Kitt (Artist) Miriam Makeba (Singer) Marya Mannes (Writer) Johnny Mathis (Recording Artist) Karl A. Menninger (Psychiatrist) Burgess Meredith (Actor-Director) (Playwright) Warren Miller (Novelist) Ashley Montagu (Anthropologist) Henry Morgan (Actor-Author) Patricia Mnsel (Singer).. . Edmond O'Brien (Actor) Frederick 0 'Neal (Actor-Lecturer) (Concert Artist) (Actor) John Raitt (Actor-Singer) Jerome Robbins (Director-Choreographerl (Singer-Actor) Peter Seeger (Musician) George Shirley (Opera Tenor) (Singer- Pianist) Ed Sullivan (TV Personality) Eli Wallach (Actor) Poppy Cannon White (Writer) Additional copies of this Declaration available from the American Committee on Africa, 211 E. 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017.