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73. 115 Cong. Rec. 7791 (March 26, 1969).

74. Ibid., 7795.

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81. Ibid., 34.

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83. H.R. 12042, 91st Cong., 1st sess. (1969), 1, Folder 14, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records.

84. Civil Rights Act, Pub. L. No. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, Title VI (1964).

85. H.R. 12042.

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90. Such perks were common; the CAB's chief hearing examiner was also on this flight. Nonetheless, ACOA was “appalled” by Representative Samuel N. Friedel's flight. Gappert to Friedel, April 30, 1969, printed in South Africa and United States Foreign Policy, Appendix B, 77; see also Lillian Wiggins, “Friedel, Holiday Inns Hit on S. Africa links,” Baltimore Afro-American, May 17, 1969, 1. Friedel defended his civil rights record in an extension of remarks in the House. 115 Cong. Rec. 14267 (May 28, 1969).

91. Houser to Nixon, January 28, 1969, 2, Folder [GEN] CA 7 Cases-Decisions [1969–70], Box 13, WHCF:SF CA, RNPL.

92. ACOA, “South Africa Scores Again as South African Airways Bids for U.S. Tourists,” January 28, 1969, 3, Folder 14, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records.

93. ACOA, “A Black Tourist's Guide to South Africa,” February 1969, 3, Folder 18, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records.

94. Ibid., 1.

95. Ibid., 2.

96. “Grave Implications for South Africa of Her Official Policy on Non-white Tourists,” Southern Africa's Travel and Trade News Pictorial, June 4, 1969; and Amembassy, Cape Town to State Department, Airgram, June 11, 1969, both in Folder Inco Tourism S 1/1/67, Box 1162, CFPF:E, RG 59, NACP; and Amembassy, Pretoria, to State Department, Airgram, January 22, 1970, Folder AV S 1/1/70, Box 661, Subject Numeric Files, 1970–73, Economic (hereafter SNF:E), RG 59, NACP.

97. A. Philip Randolph to Diggs, February 3, 1969, 1, Folder 17, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

98. Advertisement, New York Times, May 28, 1969, 32.

99. “Summary: Immediate Results of South African Airways Campaign,” July 22, 1969, Folder 14, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records. ACOA took credit for this, but the agency pointed to long-distance communication problems, and SAA claimed they did not like Graff's work. “S.A.A. Has Changed New York Agency,” Rand Daily Mail, August 18, 1969, 2.

100. Raymond Heard, “US Airline to Stop SA Adverts,” Rand Daily Mail, May 17, 1971, 2.

101. Rosenthal to Diggs, April 29, 1969, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

102. Diggs to Paul Rand Dixon, Federal Trade Commission, May 1, 1969, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

103. Federal Aviation Act, § 411.

104. Richard J. O'Melia to Diggs, October 2, 1969, 1, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU; and Press release, October 7, 1969, Folder 17, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

105. Diggs to O'Melia, March 17, 1970, Folder 17, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

106. Jerry L. Reynolds to Diggs, July 31, 1969, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

107. Diggs to Winton M. Blount, August 6, 1969, 2, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

108. Ibid.

109. Ibid., 1.

110. Ibid.

111. “ONION For The Day,” Chicago Daily Defender, August 11, 1969, 5; “S. Africa Given U.S. Mail Deal,” Baltimore Afro-American, August 16, 1969, 1; and “Blount's Insulting Mail Deal,” Editorial, Baltimore Afro-American, August 23, 1969, 4.

112. Carl F. Salans, Deputy Legal Adviser, State Department, to David A. Nelson, General Counsel, USPS, August 21, 1969, Folder AV 6 S AFR 1/1/67, Box 553, CFPF:E, RG 59, NACP.

113. U.S. Business Involvement in Southern Africa: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Part 1, 92nd Cong., 1st sess. (1971), 219.

114. Ibid. (J. F. Jones, Director, Traffic Management Division, Operations Department, USPS).

115. ACOA and Diggs did not try to revoke Pan Am's 1947 permit, although throughout this period they did monitor the status of Pan Am's request for additional service to South Africa.

116. Robert Lindsey, “Airline to Offer ‘General’ and ‘Mature’ Movies,” New York Times, February 19, 1970, 49.

117. “Pan Am Won't Hire Any Tan Stewardesses,” New York Amsterdam News, March 10, 1956, 36; Lillian Wiggins, “Diggs Raps Airlines on S. Africa as Banker's Wife Buys Racist Line,” Baltimore Afro-American, May 10, 1969, 1; and Diggs to Najeeb Halaby, Pan Am, September 23, 1971, Folder 17, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

118. Pan Am monthly operational bulletin, August 15, 1971, quoted in press release, February 8, 1972, Folder Feb. 7, Box 224, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU. See also G. Joseph Minetti to Diggs, November 22, 1971, Tab November 1971, Box 9, Outgoing Correspondence 1951–1979, Office of the Chairman, RG 197, NACP; Diggs to Congressional Liaison, memorandum, February 8, 1972, Folder Feb. 7, Box 224, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU; and Reuters, “Pan Am Race Policy Probed,” Washington Post, Times Herald, February 9, 1972, A8.

119. Francis L. Lennon, Senior Director, Flight Service Operations, Pan Am, to J. Driessen, Secretary for Transport, Pretoria, February 12, 1971, Folder South Africa 7, Box 357, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU; and Associated Press, “Pan Am to Use Blacks on South Africa Flights,” New York Times, February 11, 1972, 74.

120. ACOA, “Getting Information on Discriminatory Practices Connected with Tourist Travel to South Africa,” 1969, Folder 17; Action Ideas re South African Airways, n.d., Folder 14; Report on Activities in Our Campaign Against South African Airways, February 3, 1969, Folder 14; and ACOA, Draft, “Anatomy of a Campaign,” September 2, 1969, 5, Folder 20; all in Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records.

121. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 acknowledged “the right of all private persons to travel and pursue their lawful activities without discrimination as to race or religion.” Pub. L. No. 87–195, 75 Stat. 424, § 102.

122. Project Inequality—South African Airways, n.d., Folder 14, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records.

123. Ibid.; see also South African Airways Quiz-IN, n.d., Folder 14, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records.

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129. South African Airways, Foreign Permit, 49 C.A.B. at 339.

130. Lefkowitz, quoted in News Release, December 8, 1969, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU. SAA lawyers had themselves previously described SAA as “an instrumentality of the Government of South Africa” and “the name under which the Airways Department of the Administration operates commercially.” Brief of South African Airways to Examiner Hyman S. Goldberg, September 16, 1968, 2, 2 fn 1, Docket 20054, RG 197, NACP.

131. Verified complaint, Lefkowitz v. South African Airways, New York State Division of Human Rights, December 4, 1969, 5, Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU.

132. Determination and Order after Investigation, Lefkowitz v. South African Airways, Case No. Ia-CP-0446-69, New York State Division of Human Rights, January 21, 1970; and Press Release, New York State Division of Human Rights, December 16, 1969; both in Folder 2, Box 201, Diggs Papers, MSRC-HU; and “South African Line is Accused of Bias,” New York Times, December 8, 1969, 10.

133. State Department, Memorandum of Conversation, December 17, 1969, 2, Folder AV 6 S AFR 1/1/67, Box 553, CFPF:E, RG 59, NACP; and State Department, Memorandum of Conversation, February 12, 1970, 1, and South Africa, Aide Memoire, July 16, 1970, both in Folder AV S 1/1/70, Box 661, SNF:E, RG 59, NACP.

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135. “Score in Airways Battle,” New York Amsterdam News, June 6, 1970, 4; and “State Human Rights Socks It to S.A.,” New York Amsterdam News, July 18, 1970, 43.

136. SAA, Application to Reopen and Notice of Motion to Dismiss the Complaint, to Vacate the Notice of Hearing, and for Other Relief, Lefkowitz v. South African Airways, Case No. Ia-CP-0446-69, New York State Division of Human Rights, February 10, 1970, in Exhibits Accompanying Petitioner's Petition and Memorandum in Support Thereof, Folder 17, Box 94, Series I: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Southern Africa Project (hereafter Series I), Subseries I.3: Case Files, Gay McDougall Papers 1967–1999 (hereafter McDougall Papers), Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York (hereafter CUL).

137. South African Airways v. New York State Division of Human Rights, 64 Misc. 2d 707, 710–11 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1970). Someone at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wrote in the margins of this case alongside this paragraph “dictum—gratuitous & erroneous”; p. 4, Folder 18, Box 94, Series I, Subseries I.3: Case Files, McDougall Papers, CUL.

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153. Prehearing Conference Report, February 22, 1973, 4, Docket 24944, Folder 19, Box 104, microfilm reel 9, ACOA Records. Hearing examiners had been renamed “administrative law judges.”

154. Ibid., 10–12.

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156. Answer of Applicant to Joint Petition to Intervene, February 23, 1973, 1, Docket 24944 vol. 1, RG 197, NACP.

157. Ibid., 4.

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