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Harvard’s Answer to the Gulf Oil Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2019

Charles C. Schoenau
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On April 20, 1972, thirty-five black students at Harvard University — members of the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) and of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) — moved into Massachusetts Hall and announced that they had taken over the administration building in protest over the decision of the Harvard Corporation to retain its stock in the Gulf Oil Corporattion. The occupation lasted seven days and was supported by a large segment of the Harvard student body, many Boston community and church organizations, some of the most prominent black leaders in the United States, as well as spokesmen for the major nationalist groups in Angola.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , Fall 1972 , pp. 33 - 36
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1972 

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References

1 Wheeler, Douglas and Pelissier, René, Angola (New York, USA, Praeger Publishers, 1971) p. 174.Google Scholar

2 Gulf position statement on “A Proposed Resolution on Southern Africa before the Delegates to the Eighth General Synod of the United Church of Christ,” presented by Mr Edward B Walker, Vice President, Gulf Oil Corporation, at the preliminary hearing at the Pantlind Hotel, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24, 1971.

3 Bok to Winston and Robinson, April 19, 1972.

4 “Gulf Oil — Portuguese Ally in Angola” (New York, Corporate Information Center, National Council of Churches, March 1972), p. 6.

5 “Remarks by Paul Sheldon, Vice President of Gulf Oil to the Eastern/Southeastern Institutional Investors Study Group on Corporate Responsibility in Southern Africa,” (New York, African-American Institute, April 12, 1972), p. 9.

6 “Gulf Oil — Portuguese Ally in Angola,” p. 7.

7 Ibid., p. 8.

8 See John Marcum, “The Politics of Indifference,“.

9 “Statement by the President and Fellows of Harvard College on the Gulf Oil Question,” Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972 p. 2.