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[Identification of item], in the Anti-Apartheid Support Group of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40143, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Anti-Apartheid Support Group (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
• Anti-apartheid movements--North Carolina.
• College students--North Carolina--Political activity.
• College students--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Endowment Board.

• Office of Chancellor: Christopher C. Fordham Records (#40024)

From 1982 to 1985 various groups, chiefly the Public Interest Research Group, were involved in anti-apartheid activities on campus. The UNC Anti-Apartheid Support Group (AASG) was organized and officially recognized as a student organization in October 1985.

From 1985 to 1987, the AASG was very vocal on campus. Its members led the campus movement against apartheid by insisting on divestiture of all University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill holdings in companies operating in South Africa. Their protests and demonstrations peaked in March and April of 1986, when the group erected shanties in front of South Building.

In October 1987, the Endowment Board of the University of North Carolina ay Chapel Hill voted to divest all of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa, and the AASG dismantled shortly thereafter.

Records, 1985-1987, of the Anti-Apartheid Support Group, include newsletters, membership lists, and some correspondence. Also included are materials, 1981-1985, about anti-apartheid activities that predated the formation of AASG and materials, 1980-1987, about anti- apartheid activities elsewhere.