In addition to drawing from a familiar set of protest strategies—sit-ins, petitions, rallies, and blockades—students introduced the powerful new tactic of building shantytowns. This approach created a highly visible symbol of protest and evoked the harsh living conditions many Black South Africans faced under apartheid.
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The crimes of apartheid, the crimes of its supporters, UC Blood $ [missing text] BCM; No place like homelands!; Anarchy is for nice folks; No more blood $; USA kills; U.C. South Africa, partners in crime; Banned from campus; Divest now; Squat; [missing text] So. African investments not Barrington; Long live the revolution.
Date: April 2, 1986
Attribution: Photograph by Tom Duncan, 1986, Photographic Print Files of the Fang Family San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive, BANC PIC 2006.029--B box 30, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.