{"id":3886,"date":"2012-03-02T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/oregon-multicultural-archives\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:00:15","slug":"oregon-anti-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/2012\/03\/02\/oregon-anti-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/files\/2012\/02\/scrapbook-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3921 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/oregon-multicultural-archives\/files\/2012\/02\/scrapbook-001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3293\/files\/2012\/02\/scrapbook-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3293\/files\/2012\/02\/scrapbook-001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3293\/files\/2012\/02\/scrapbook-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3293\/files\/2012\/02\/scrapbook-001-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Two Pages from the Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook<\/p>\n<p><strong>MSS Ferguson, Ed Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook, 1980-1982<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Accession 2012:010\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Digital Copy Available via ScholarsArchive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ir.library.oregonstate.edu\/xmlui\/handle\/1957\/28107\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook \u2013 ScholarsArchive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook is made up of newspaper clippings assembled by OSU history department faculty member Ed Ferguson. Ferguson, a specialist in African history, served as an associate professor in the history department from 1979-1991.<\/p>\n<p>The scrapbook documents the protest and educational campaign led by the OSU African Students Association (ASA) in response to wrestling coach Dale Thomas\u2019 association with the South African wrestling community. Thomas\u2019 hosting of visiting South African coaches and proposed team tour of the country drew fire because of an international ban upon competition with South African athletes as a protest of the racist apartheid political system.<\/p>\n<p>Taken primarily from the OSU <em>Barometer<\/em>, the <em>Corvallis Gazette-Times<\/em>, and <em>The Oregonian<\/em> newspapers, these clippings include editorials about the campaign, articles about campaign presentations sponsored by the ASA on apartheid, and stories about public campus forums about the topic. The clippings date from 1980-1982 and include letters to the editor by Ferguson and stories about his involvement in the forums.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled \u201cEnforcing the International Sports Boycott of South Africa at OSU: News Clippings from the Struggle\u201d the scrapbook is a photocopy of the original which is a part of the Oregon Anti-Apartheid Files currently described as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/africanactivist.msu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">African Activist Archives Project<\/a> at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Pages from the Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook MSS Ferguson, Ed Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook, 1980-1982 Accession 2012:010\u00a0\u00a0 Digital Copy Available via ScholarsArchive Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook \u2013 ScholarsArchive The Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook is made up of newspaper clippings assembled by OSU history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/2012\/03\/02\/oregon-anti-apartheid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1329592],"tags":[97053,1325428,1157427],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oma","tag-african-americans","tag-new-collection","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}