April Third Movement

A packet of flyers which includes (1) “Stanford Protest Set, a press release by the Stanford Committee for Responsible Investment Policy announcing plans for a two day vigil, a political rally, and a hunger strike, May 2–4, to promote a “yes” vote by the Trustees on proxy resolutions concerning U.S. corporate investment in South Africa. (2) A flyer titled, “Abstention is Not Enough! Where do the Trustees Stand?” (3) A reprint of a two part article in The Stanford Daily, by Chris Gray and Mike Jennings, members of the Stanford Coalition for Responsible Investment Policy: “Investment aid apartheid,” on April 22; and “Support stock resolutions.” (4) A list of “organizations and groups supporting the call for affirmative votes on the various South African non-expansion and withdrawal and proxy resolutions…”

Flyer protesting the Trustees plan to abstain and calling for a vigil, rally, and hunger strike, May 2–4.

By Alan Bernstein, Nina Byrne, Bob DeGrasse, and Lenny Siegel for the Pacific Studies Center and the Stanford Chapter of Campuses United Against Apartheid. Includes: “Accomplices in Apartheid,” “Apartheid Defined,” “Stanford’s South African Investments,” “Who Governs Stanford,” “Know Your Trustees,” “U.S. Companies in South Africa: A Progressive Force?” and “South African Blacks Demand Withdrawal.”

Two articles in The Stanford Daily report on the need to divest from investment in South Africa.

Stanford Daily article reporting that the trustee’s Committee on Investment will discuss whether to ask the full board to reconsider its position on corporate investment in South Africa.

Two articles in The Stanford Daily: “294 Arrested in Old Union sit-in” and “Student addresses trustee committee”

“Singing and dancing to the end, 294 persons were arrested at Stanford Monday and Tuesday, May 9–10, during a 16 hour sit-in at the Old Union protesting U.S. investments in South Africa.”

Two articles on the front page of The Stanford Daily: A Night in Milpitas” and “Protesters choose not to face arrest.”

“Of the 294 persons arrested Monday and Tuesday, May 9–10, 270 have now been identified as students, President Richard w. Lyman reported to the Faculty Senate Thursday, May 12.”

The Stanford Daily article reporting that graduating seniors are being asked to not contribute to the Stanford endowment funds until the University divests itself of all South Africa investments.

by William Stroud in The Real News, June 2, 1977

Pacific News Service report by Bill Sievert.

By Bob D., Grapevine. Reformatted contemporary report by a participant in the May 9, 1977 sit-in at Stanford’s Old Union building.

The Stanford Committee for a Responsible Investment Policy (SCRIP), a predominantly student group opposed to apartheid, Thursday, Nov. 28, demanded that the University Board of Trustees divest holdings in nine U.S. corporations operating in South Africa by Feb. 14.”

Lengthy report on telephone interviews with students arrested in the anti-apartheid demonstrations.

About 50 supporters of divestment sat-in at the President’s office from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. on Wednesday, April 26.

Palo Alto Times article about students protesting trustee proxy votes against U.S. corporate withdrawal from South Africa.

Flyer by the Stanford Committee for a Responsible Investment Policy (SCRIP).

“Two black students from South Africa were among more than 20 people calling for Stanford to divest its stock in U.S. corporations operating there at a campus hearing Monday, March 6.”

Tactics, guidelines, and philosophy, compiled by a collective group from SWOPSI 108.

By Randy Schutt. Retrospective on the campaign mounted by the Stanford Committee for a Responsible Investment Policy, commenting on its national implications.

By Seth Foldy. Retrospective on the 1977 campaign.