Letter requesting support for the Anti-Apartheid Day rally: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This letter requests support for the May 1 Anti-Apartheid Day in New York City. The memo is white paper with black text. The heading reads: [May 1 Anti-Apartheid Day Committee]. The memo is signed by the following [John Akpan / Pan African Students Organization in / the Americas (PASOA) / Daniel Berrgian, S.J. / Sharon Chin / Youth Against War & Fascism / (YAWF) / Carlos Feliciano / Florynce R. Kennedy / Coalition Against Racism and Sexism / William Kunstler / Lennox Hines (sic) / Pres. National Conference of Black Lawyers / Helen Rodriguez-Trias, M.D. / Pres. Committee to End Sterilization / Abuse (CESA) / Dennis L. Serette / Pres. N.Y.S Coalition of Black Trade Unionists]. The back of the memo is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: April 14, 1976
• Created by: May 1 Anti-Apartheid Day Committee, American
• Subject of: Youth Against War & Fascism, American, founded 1961
• Subject of: Pan African Students Organization in the Americas, American, 1960 - 1977
• Subject of: Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, American, founded 1972
• Subject of: National Conference of Black Lawyers, American, founded 1968
• Signed by: John Akpan
• Signed by: Carlos Feliciano, Puerto Rican, born 1929
• Signed by: Florynce Rae Kennedy, American, 1916 - 2000
• Type: memorandums
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Africa
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Object number: 2015.97.27.35
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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