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No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000

Edited by William Minter,
Gail Hovey, and Charles Cobb Jr.
Published by Africa World Press.
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Research Updates

2021

From Cape Town to Uptown
22-minute documentary by Lance Hill, 1984
New Orleans and apartheid South Africa. Includes interviews with New Orleans activists including Selby Semela.

2017

Canada/Africa - In Memoriam, Brian Murphy

2009

Cape Verde - Ray Almeida chronology

Cape Verde - Salah Matteos interview

Guide to Sources of Liberation Posters

2008

"Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in US-South African relations"
by William Minter and Sylvia Hill, 2008, in SADET, The Road to Democracy in South Africa htm | pdf

Work a Day for Freedom
A Short History of the Bay Area Free South Africa Labor Committee
by David Bacon, Feb. 2008

No Easy Victories Photo, page 49

Original caption
Gathering in support of South African political prisoners, Israel Baptist Church, Washington, DC, 1991. Aleah Bacquie, left, coordinator of the ACOA’s Religious Action Network, confers with Rev. Morris Shearin, center, and a church deacon. Photo © Rick Reinhard.

Additional information
The third person in the photo is William Branson Cooke, II (1927-1998). He was a highly respected leader in Walker Memorial Baptist Church, a lifelong community activist and, along with Rev. Shearin, an active leader of the Washington, DC branch of the NAACP.



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