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"Chicago labor, religious, black and community groups today announced the formation of a broad coalition, Stop the Apartheid Rugby Tour (SART/CHICAGO) to oppose the September 19 rugby sports match in the Chicago area sponsored by the Midwest Rugby Football Union."
A press release from the Black Coalition Against the Rugby Tour organization, " composed of numerous Black organizations and individuals who have come together to fight against this scheduled tour to Chicago by the Springboks and to exemplify our support for our brothers and sisters in South Africa who are still oppressed by the white supremacist apartheid South African government" is also present. These groups formed in protest of the planned September 19, 1981 rugby match in Chicago.
Publication Date
8-21-1981
City
Chicago, Illinois
Keywords
SART, Stop the Apartheid Rugby Tour, Black Coalition Against the Rugby Tour, Conrad Worrill, rugby, Sp[ringboks, South Africa, United States
Disciplines
African Languages and Societies | American Studies | Cultural History | History | Oral History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Social History
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Columbia College Chicago, "SART/CHICAGO Stop the Apartheid Ruby Tour press release" (1981). Lisa Brock Collection. 9.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/brock/9
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This item is part of the Lisa Brock Collection at the College Archives and Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact archives@colum.edu for more information and to view more of the collection.