Brenda Randolph Africa archive.

"The Southern Africa Relief Fund (SARF) was established by a group of concerned Black people to provide monies for food, clothing and other forms of humanitarian relief in Southern Africa. ... SARF focused on eight nations, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia) that were dominated by European minorities. Key members included Randall Robinson (chairman) and other students at Harvard Law School including Dennis R. Tourse (Vice-Chairman), Robert C. Holmes (Secretary), Brenda Randolph Robinson (Treasurer), Cherry Holmes (Assistant Treasurer) and Robert Freeman (Executive Secretary). SARF produced a slide show that was widely shown in the Boston area including on Say Brother, WGBH's public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans. SARF used the address of the Harvard Black Law Students Association .... Many SARF members later founded the Pan-African Liberation Committee. (Source: Text largely from SARF documents and Brenda Randolph."--description from African Activist Archive (africanactivist.msu.edu) website. Correspondents include: Jackson Kambede (Nairobi, SWANUF and South West Africa Refugee Relief Fund), Mburumba Kerina (New York, SWANU), Moses Katjiuongua (Sweden, SWANU External Council), Willard Johnson (MIT), Walter J. Leonard (Harvard), Zedekia Ngavirue (Oxford, UK, (SWANU External Council), Tunguru Huaraka (London, SWANU External Council), Aristide Pereira (Conakry, PAIGC), Howard Fuller, Ralphe J. Bunche (New York, United Nations), Jaime M. Khamba (New York), A. Philip Randolph, C. Munhamu B. Utete, Hayward Henry, Mamadou Moctar Thiam (New york, Organization of African Unity), and others.

"The Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) was formed by individuals who were involved in the Southern Africa Relief Fund and were students at Harvard University including Randall Robinson, Brenda Randolph Robinson and South African exile Chris Nteta. PALC's initial focus was on a boycott of Gulf Oil Corporation because of the company's exploitation of oil in the Portuguese colony of Angola. In April 1972, 14 hours after Harvard President Derek Bok announced the university would not divest from Gulf, a group of black students from Harvard Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro) and the Pan-African Liberation Committee took over Massachusetts Hall, headquarters of the central administration, demanding that the university sell its investments in the company. This began the Gulf divestment campaign at Harvard. One year later, on April 24, 1973, following a Harvard Corporation meeting that reaffirmed the decision not to divest from Gulf, 1,500 students crowded into Harvard Yard, blocking President Bok from his Massachusetts Hall offices. PALC was also active in the broader Cambridge-Boston area. The organization ceased to operate around 1974." (Source: PALC documents; Harvard Crimson archives; Brenda Randolph)--description from African Activist Archive (africanactivist.msu.edu) website. Correspondents include: Carol Laise (Washington DC, Dept of State), Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Chris Nteta, Sister Marie Augusta Neal.

"The African Youth Movement for Liberation and Unity was organized to advocate for decolonization, support for liberation movements, and education and enlightenment of African students in the U.S. The organization supported the liberation struggles in the Portuguese colonies (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde) and Zimbabwe as well as the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. It also promoted Pan Africanism. The organization collaborated with the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the African Information Service, and other organizations. The African Youth Movement for Liberation and Unity published a newsletter."--description from African Activist Archive (africanactivist.msu.edu) website.

Gift; Brenda Randolph.