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vvesayno to apartheid We take this pledge: in solemn resolve to refuse any encouragement of, or indeed, any professional association with the present Republic of South Africa. this until the day when all its people shall equally enjoy the educational and cultural advantages of that rich and beautiful land. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. DIAHANN CARROLL WILT CHAMBERLAIN DICK GREGORY PAUL NEWMAN NORMAN ROCKWELL JOANNE WOODWARD LEONARD BERNSTEIN RUBY DEE FREDERICK O'NEAL ASHLEY MONTAGU OSCAR BRAND PETE SEEGER JEROME ROBBINS ELI WALLACH OSSIE DAVIS AL HIRSCHFELD PETER BOGDANOVICH BROCK PETERS CLIVE BARNES STEPHEN SONDHEIM KARL MENNINGER EllA KAZAN TERRY SOUTHER~ KURT VONNEGUT, JR. BETTY FRIEDAN HARRY GOLDEN ! ARTHUR MILLER NO RMAN CORWIN ZERO MOSTEL RICHARD ROUNDTREE HARRY GOLDEN KAY BOYLE BILL COSBY RICHARD KILEY JOE MORTON BARBARA WALTERS WOODY ALLEN CAREY MCWILLIAMS EDWARD ALBEE GALWAY KINNELL HUME CRONYN SIDNEY LUMET DEN ISE LEVERTOV ERSKINE CALDWELL JESSICA TANDY VICTOR BORG E RAFER JOHNSON ROY LICHTENSTEIN E.R. BRAITHWAITE (partial listing) KATHERINE ANNE PORTER DAVE BRUBECK vvill you say no to apartheid? South Africa-where there is total denial of civil. pol itical and human rights for the Black majority (80% of the population)-where the re is racial discrimination, sewega tion and control of every movement from birth to death - that is the law of apartheid -that is the law of the land. The American Committee on Africa, founded in y-------------------------Say NO to Apartheid American Committee on Africa. 1953, is devoted to supporting African. People' 305 East 46th Stl (; et, New Ynrk. N.v 10017 in their just struggle for freedom and independence. Add my name to "We say NO to apa~hE'id · . and ACOA informs Americans about significant African keep me informed of further developments. issues, mobilizes public support for African Name ______________________________ freedom, and works for policies which will strengthp.n this aim. - Address ________. ________________ _ City _____~State _____ Zip ___ -----------------------....J AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA The American Committee on Africa Cultural Protest 305 EAST 46th STREET. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 ACOA's Ray Gould mobilized many important Americam (including: Marcia A,nn Gillespie. editor of Essence Executive 80ard National Committee W.. hlngton Office WiI!lam H Booth Ralph Abernathy On Afrtca: magazine; Joan Sandler, director of the Black Theater P,esldent Bella Abzug 110 Maryland Avenue. N.E. Alliance; Ann Early, director of Writer., in Residence; Eli zabeth LandiS Sadie T.M Alexander Washington, 0 C. 20002 Vice Pre sident Tnurman Arnold (202) 546-7961 Robert Browne. director of the Black Economic Research Arthur Ashe David Robinson James Baldwin Edgar T. Lockwood Center; Congressman Charles Diggs, former chairman of Vice Pre sident Roger N. Baldwin Director the House Subcommittee on Africa; and Frederick O·Neal. Dorothy Hibbert Stringfellow Barr Christine Root president of Actors Equity) to protest a visit by The Secretary Richard Bolling Associate Jim Bouton Supremes singing group to South Africa in the fall. Jay Jacobson Mrs. Chester Bowles Kenneth Vickery Treasurer Marguerite Cartwright Associate A cover story. editorial and cartoon appeared in the Elombe Broth Jerome Davis Amsterdam News. the nation's largest black weekly Marshall Brown Max Delson Robert Browne Peter Devries newspaper. based upon an ACOA news release. Perhaps Goler Butcher Charles C. Diggs. Jr. in response to this pressure. the Supremes condemned elsie Carrinqton Richard Falk Winifred Courtney Walter E. Fauntroy conditions of Africans. their own status as "honorary George Daniels Donald M. Fraser Michael Davis Carlton B. Goodlett whites." and the segregated audiences and were expelled Moe Fonel Donald S. Harrington by the white authorities. No doubt their experience will Collin Gonze Seymour Halpern Lawrence Henderson Henry W. Hobson give others pause. Janet Hooper Arthur N. Holcombe Leonard Jeffries Elmer J. Holland William Johnston John LS. Holloman South Mrica Advertisements David Lamoel Sophia Yarnall Jacobs Tilden LeM p, lle Clarence B. Jones in the New York Times Ida LeWIS David D. Jones Edgar Lockwood Sidney Josephs The case against the New York Times for carrying job Oseye Mchawi Rev . Ledlie T. Laughlin. Jr. Gall Morlan George M Leader advertisements from South Africa which discriminate Andrew Norman Rayford W. Logan against black Americans entered a new round in 1975. Adelaide Schulkind Eugene J. McCarthy Frederick A O. Schwarz. Jr. Robert J. McCracken The state's highest court will now consider an appeal by Herbert Shore . John A Mackay Timothy Smith John Marcum ACOA and the City Human Rights Commission. R lc~ard P Stevens Will Maslow Robert Van Lleroo Howard M. Metzenbaum Peter WeIss Frank C. Montero South Mrican Airways Donald Wilson Frederick O'Nelll Andre Ungar F.D . Patterson In 1975. ACOA went back into'federal court to stop South Sidney Poitier African Airways flights in the U.S., charging that the Staff Paul A. Porter George M House r Melvin Price Civil Aeronautics Board had not considered the evidence Executive Director A Phlli!) Randolph Charles B. Rangel of racial discrimination in the airline's operations. This case Paullrrsh Victor Reuthpr is being handled by Roderic Boggs of the Washington chapter Executive Assoclale Cleveland Robinson , Jp,nn ifp,r DaVI S James Roosevelt of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Research Drrector Robert St John Raphael Gould William Scott SpeCial Projects William X. Scheinman Georgp, W. Shepherd . Washington Activities Richard Knight Hugh Smythe Literilture Edward J. Sparling Both Jen~ifer Davis and George Houser provided testimonY Angela Passaro Mark Starr to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings. Mr. Membership Hope R Stevens Minette Kirson William E Stevenson Houser provided the Committee with an historical Finance C Summer Stone. Jr . Frank Thompson Jr overview and analysis of events in southern Africa. while MarVin Rich Howard Thurman Finance Ms. Davis provided the Committee with evidence of Wyatt Tee Walker Lynn GoodWin Stanley V Wright continued U.S. violations of its arms embargo against Administration South Africa. docuT"1enting the dangerous flow of aircraft. Diana Wa rner General Counsel AdMinistration Robert Delson nuclear and electronics technology. Mrica Defense and Aid Fund Namibian Seal Skins ACOA is suing the federal government for allowing the ACOA provided modest. yet often critical, e~erge~cy importation from Namibia of seal skins used to make assistance to political refugees in grave need In Afrtca. luxury furs. Leonard Meeker of the Center for Law and The Mrica Fund Social Policy is seeking a permanent injunction against the trade. while ACOA board member Goler Butcher The Africa Fund is an independent. tax-exempt associate and Michael Peay of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of ACOA which supports schools. hospitals. medical and are contesting an application by the importer before the social services in Angola. Mozambique. Guinea-Bissau Commerce Department. They won a victory temporarily and Cape Verde Islands. Africa Fund also aids those. halting the trade in February 1976 when the State from South Africa. Namibia and Zimbabwe (RhodeSIa) Department upheld our contention that the furs should who have been the vjctims of political persecution through not be imported due to South Africa's illegal occupation education and family assistance. legal defense and refugee of Namibia. aid. It provides research and literature on economic. social and political developments in southern Africa. .