PROGRAM

National Conference ON South African Crisis and American Action

WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 21-23, 1965 WILLARD HOTEL

RT. REV. JAMES A. PIKE, Conference Chairman

GEORGE M. HOUSER, Conference Secretary PROGRAM

SUNDAY, MARCH 21 MONDAY, MARCH 22 8:00 p.m. PUBLIC MEETING: IISouth Africa Five 12:30 p.m. LUNCHEON Years After Sharpevillell Chairman: JAMES FORMAN, Executive Director, Stu­ Chairman: REV. FRANCIS E. HilL, O.M.I., Professor dent Non-Vio!ent Coordinating Committee of Oblate College, Catholic University_ Formerly Vicar General of the Archdiocese, Durban, South Remarks: GEORGE M. HOUSER, Executive Director, American Committee on Africa Africa ll Speakers: VICTOR REUTHER, Director, International Address: liThe United States and South Africa Affairs, United Automobile Workers, AFL-CiO CONGRESSMAN DONALD FRASER, Minnesota JAMES FARMER, National Director, Con­ gress of Racial Equality 2:30 p.m. SEMINAR GROUPS Singer: MISS JESSIE NORMAN, Soprano, Howard 1. US GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT University Choir, singing American Freedom Songs Chairman: ALLARD LOWENSTEIN, author of Brutal Mandate Speaker: OLIVER TAMBO, Deputy President, South Africa's African National Congress Papers: PETER WEISS, President of the American Committee on Africa THOMAS FRANCK, Professor of International Law, New York University Law School MONDAY, MARCH 22 Discussants: MASON SEARS, Former US Representative on the UN Trusteeship Council 9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION HUGH BROOKS, Director, Institute of African Affairs, St. John's University 9:30 a.m. PANEl PRESENTATION: IIForces Chal­ lenging or Perpetuating the Status Quoll 2. AMERICAN TRADE AND FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENT Chairman: RT. REV. JAMES A. PIKE Chairman: HOPE STEVENS, Vice President, American Panel: Committee on Africa 1. THE TRANSKEI, BANTUSTANS AND HIGH COMMIS­ Papers: JULIAN FRIEDMAN, Associate Professor of Political SION TERRITORIES / RICHARD STEVENS, Director, Science, Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University African Center, lincoln University ALVIN WOLFE, Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2. SOUTH WEST AFRICA AND THE INTERNATIONAL Washington University COURT OF JUSTICE / MRS. ELIZABETH S. LANDIS, Co­ Editor of the Liberian Code of Law of 1956 Discussants: DANIEL BERNSTEIN, Member NY Stock Exchange 3. ECONOMIC FORCES AT WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA / EDWARD MARCUS, Professor of Economics, Brooklyn EDWARD MARCUS College 4. AFRICAN CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS AND INTER­ 3. AMERICAN PRIVATE INVOLVEMENT (tourism, student NATIONAL PRESSURES / H. E. ACHKAR MAROF, Per­ and leader exchanges, entertainment, sports, etc.) manent Representative of Guinea to the UN and Chair­ Chairman: HUGH H. SMYTHE, Professor of Anthropology, man of Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid Brooklyn College 5. THE POLICIES AND ACTIVITIES OF GROUPS WITHIN Paper: JOSEPH KENNEDY, Program Director, American SOUTH AFRICA Society of African Culture a. AFRICAN GROUPS / NATHANIEL NAKASA, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, South African Journalist Discussants: REVEREND JAMES H. ROBINSON, Executive b. WHITE GROUPS / LESLIE RUBIN, Acting Director, Director, Crossroads Africa Program of African Studies, Howard University LEON BIBB, American singer 7:00 p.m. CONFERENCE DINNER-MONDAY, MARCH 22 I, Chairman: FREDERICK O'NEAL, President, Actors Equity Association, AFL-CIO Remarks: MR. O'NEAL Program: LETT A h\BULU, singer from South Africa LEON BIBB Reading of the Declaration of Artists Against Apartheid, initiated by MIRIAM MAKEBA and HARRY BELAFONTE GEORGE SHIRLEY, Tenor, Metropolitan Opera Company ZULU SINGERS AND DANCERS from the cast of the Broadway musical 'Sponono'

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

9:30 a.m. DISCUSSION GROUPS: "What Can 3. CIVIL RIGHTS We Do?" Chairman: CLARENCE MITCHELL, Legislative Representa­ tive of the National Association for the Advancement of 1. CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES Colored People Chairman: VERNON FERWERDA, Assistant General Secre­ Panel: ROBERT SPIKE, Executive Director, Commission on tary, National Council of Churches, Washington Office Religion and Race, National Council of Churches Panel: HERMAN REISSIG, Council for Christian Social Ac­ ANDREW YOUNG, Executve Director, Southern Christian tion, United Church of Christ Leadership Conference KENNETH CARSTENS, South African Methodist Clergyman JAMES FORMAN, Executive Director, Student Non-violent GLADSTONE NTLABATI, South African Graduate Stu­ Coordinating Committee dent, Yale MARTIN LEGASSICK, South African student at UCLA MATHEW AHMANN, Executive Director, National Catho­ lic Conference for Interracial Justice 4. LABOR AND FARM UNIONS PHILIP BAUM, Director, Commission on International Chairman: BENJAMIN SEGAL, International Union of Affairs, American Jewish Congress Electrical Workers Panel: REUBEN JOHNSON, National Farmers Union 2. YOUTH AND STUDENTS NORMAN HILL, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO Chairman: NANCY SHERWOOD, Executive Secretary, US WILLIAM O. OLIVER, United Automobile Workers, AFL­ Youth Council C,IO. Co-Director of Fair Practices Department Panel: NORMAN UPHOFF, Vice President, International Affairs, US National Student Association 1:00 p.m. CLOSING LUNCHEON FRED du BOW, American Student Movement Against Apartheid, Oberlin College Chairman: REVEREND JAMES H. ROBINSON, Executive Director, Crossroads Africa BEN MAGUBANE, South African student at UCLA Address: SENATOR FRANK E. MOSS of Utah JOHN SHINGLER, South African student at Yale University Closing Remarks: RT. REV. JAMES A. PIKE SPONSORS

A.M.E. Church - A.M.E. Zion Church (Foreign Mission Dept.) - Amalgamated Clothing Workers - American Committee on Africa - American Jewish Congress - American Society of African Culture - American Student Movement Against Apart­ heid - Americans for Democratic Action - Americans for Demo­ cratic Action (Campus Division) - Association of Artists for Freedom - Catholic Interracial Council - Collegiate Council for the U.N. - Congress of Racial Equality - Episcopal Church (Division of Christian Citizenship) - Friends Peace Committee - Industrial Union Dept., AFL-CIO - International Union of Electrical Workers - Methodist Church (Board of Christian Social Concerns) - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - National Catholic Conference for Inter­ racial Justice - National Council of Churches (Commission on Religion and Race) - National Federation of Catholic College Students - National Newman Club Federation - National Student Christian Federation - Negro American Labor Council - RWDSU (District 65) - Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee - Students for a Democratic Society - United Auto· mobile Workers - United Church of Christ (Council for Christian Social Action) - United Federation of Teachers - United Pres­ byterian Church (Office of International Affairs and Commission on Religion and Race) - United States National Student Asso- . ciation - United States Youth Council - United World Feder­ alists - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - World University Service - YWCA (National Student YWCA)

Conference Secretariat: AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA 211 East 43rd Street, Room 705 New York, New York 10017 TN 7-8733

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