EVENT INFORMATION

21
November
1984

An embassy sit-in launches the Free South Africa campaign

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📅 21 November 1984 📍 Verenigde Staten

Randall Robinson, Mary Frances Berry and Walter Fauntroy were arrested after refusing to leave the South African embassy in Washington. Eleanor Holmes Norton addressed the press outside. Their action helped launch sustained demonstrations demanding stronger US opposition to apartheid. The campaign connected civil-rights organizing at home with international pressure against a racial order supported by economic and diplomatic relationships.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Randall Robinson

Mary Frances Berry

Walter Fauntroy

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Organisaties in dit Evenement

TransAfrica

Free South Africa Movement