The African-American Manifesto on Southern Africa by Dylan Howard-146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk Made with love en-us 2019-02-01 16:58:13 UTC 2019-02-02 06:14:27 UTC hello@padlet.com 146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326784360 This ten-point manifesto was adopted at a conference convened by the Congressional Black Caucus, September 24-25, 1976, in Washington,D.C. ]]> 2019-02-01 17:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326784360 146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326784827
  • The Manifesto was adopted for a conference in D.C. 
  • Was attended by members of the Caucus, as well as representatives of major African-American organisations - NAACP, PUSH, AFRICARE, Black Economic Research Council and National Council of Negro Women.
  •  It promoted campaigns in the United States to end apartheid and to free Nelson Mandela.
    • ]]>     2019-02-01 17:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326784827     Root causes of strife in South Africa: 146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326785940
  • "Despotism and racism that serve to polarize the white government and the African majority"
  • "The continuing violence by the Europeans to sustain institutions of racism and exploitation"
  • "Economic exploitation"

    • ]]>     2019-02-01 17:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326785940     146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326787648 -]]> 2019-02-01 17:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326787648 How was South Africa’s Apartheid viewed by other nation/ organizations? 146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326790299
  • "We believe the present government of South Africa is the main barrier against majority rule in Southern Africa.."

  • The Manifesto claims the government of South Africa is responsible for the horrid treatment of Africans. The government's "unwillingness to share political and
    economic power with Blacks within its own borders."
    • ]]>     2019-02-01 17:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326790299     To what extent did their disapproval effect the demise of apartheid? 146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326790458 The Manifesto believes the United States should:
    • Find UN support towards the notion that South Africa's occupation of Namibia is a threat to peace
    • Provide assistance to South Africa's liberty movements
    • Impose a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa 
    ]]>     2019-02-01 17:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326790458     What are were some of the considerations for some countries to respond more slowly against the apartheid government than other countries? 146004357 https://padlet.com/146004357/jppwrjx6qxxk/wish/326790570
  • Major American corporations were already operating in South Africa under apartheid. To suddenly go against that same system would be economic downfall
  • Segregation had just gone out of effect in America, meaning it was less than willing to fight against a system so similar to its own

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