Students Demonstrate Their Dissatisfaction With Their School’s Investments in South Africa
Students at Harvard University protest apartheid in this snapshot from 1979. The students created anti-apartheid banners encouraging Harvard to sell its South African investments at the time.
Apartheid was enacted in South Africa in the 1950s, segregating the majority of non-whites from the minority of whites. By the 1970s, the entire globe had realized that it had done little to help the country thrive. The United Nations General Assembly condemned apartheid in 1973, and the United Nations Security Council placed a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa in 1976.