Patricia L. Beeman Southern Africa Liberation Committee collection.

The Patricia L. Beeman Southern Africa Liberation Committee collection documents the work of the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC), a highly successful community organization working at Michigan State University and in East Lansing from 1973 through 1997. The collection details SALC's educational and social action campaigns, including the "Bullard Banking Bills" by the Michigan State Legislature, the campaigns for the divestiture of Michigan State University, the MSU Foundation, the State of Michigan Pension Funds, and the "McGoff Off" campaign to have the McGoff name removed from the Wharton Center. Particularly extensive are newspaper clippings collected by Frank and Patricia Beeman from the national and local press describing conditions in Southern Africa and the local activities in response to those conditions. The books in this collection also outline the issues surrounding apartheid and resistance to it. The use of graphic arts to support these political and liberation activities is well illustrated by the numerous posters, protest buttons and T-shirts produced both by SALC and by international organizations supporting the liberation of Southern Africa.