Exhibit | Divestment Now! Student Activism and the Anti-Apartheid Movement at UC Berkeley
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In 1985, UC Berkeley students, with support from faculty, staff, and labor unions, transformed the campus into the heart of a powerful anti-apartheid divestment campaign. They organized rallies, teach-ins, and shantytown encampments to protest the university's financial ties to companies profiting from South Africa's system of racial segregation. Divestment Now! Student Activism and the Anti-Apartheid Movement at UC Berkeley highlights a movement that mobilized thousands, politicized a new generation, and laid the groundwork for ongoing struggles for racial and economic justice.
