How U.S. Activists Helped Push South Africa Away From Apartheid

· Dec. 7, 2013, 10:33 pm

U.S. civil rights leaders were among the first Americans to shine an international light on apartheid in South Africa. But calls for economic sanctions eventually led to wider actions, from college campuses to Wall Street. Richard Knight, project director of the African Activist Archive, remembers the role the U.S. indirectly played in South Africa’s struggle.

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