Polaroid & Apartheid: Inside the Beginnings of the Boycott, Divestment Movement Video

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Polaroid & Apartheid: Inside the Beginnings of the Boycott, Divestment Movement Against South Africa


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source: Zinn Education Project

As reported on Democracy Now!, African-American workers at Polaroid in Massachusetts (including Caroline Hunter) helped launch the divestment movement against apartheid South Africa in the early 1970s. As a young chemist, Hunter stumbled up...on evidence that her employer was providing the camera system to the South African state to produce photographs for the infamous passbooks for black residents. Hunter and her late husband, Ken Williams, then launched a boycott of the company. The boycott and divestment campaign ultimately grew to target other corporations in apartheid South Africa. By 1977, Polaroid finally withdrew from South Africa. Hunter lost her job at Polaroid as a result of her activism. She continued in the anti-apartheid movement and worked for 34 years in public education in Cambridge.

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Photo: Hunter receiving the Rosa Parks Memorial from the NEA in 2012. (c) NEA Public Relations.

 

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The boycott and divestment campaign ultimately grew to target other corporations in apartheid South Africa. By 1977, Polaroid finally withdrew from South Africa. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Hunter lost her job at Polaroid as a result of her activism</span>. She continued in the anti-apartheid movement and worked for 34 years in public education in Cambridge.

So unfortunately, she, like many others, paid a price for trying to right a wrong.

Thanking her for her service.

 

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So unfortunately, she, like many others, paid a price for trying to right a wrong.

Thanking her for her service.

Whites have always exacted a heavy penalty on Black folk for being independent.

From punishment for escaped slaves, to jailing and physically abusing those daring to want equal human rights, to employment intimidation.

Have people of African descent ever been truly free among whites?


"There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty." --Marcus Garvey

 

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