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UC Berkeley Divestment from Apartheid South Africa

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Divestment from Apartheid South Africa at University California Berkeley Library Resource Guide

This library resource guide compiles library and archival materials on the campus climate and actions taken by students in the 1970s and 1980s, to pressure the University to divest in South Africa during apartheid. For additional information or to suggest additions, please contact the librarian. 

Images of Divestment Movement at Cal

large crowd of students in sproul plaza

Anti-apartheid protest on Sproul Plaza

tent encampment and students in sleeping bags

Student sleep-in divestment action, 1985

student protesters carry banner over car

Anti-apartheid demonstrators march through the traffic on the UC Berkeley campus on April 17, 1985. Image: Ron Tussy/AP

student protesters with banners

Anti-aparthied protesters scramble to erect shanties blockading entrances to California Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on March 31, 1986.  Image: Catharine Krueger/AP

students building shanty structure

Students constructing shanties outside California Hall. 1986