When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s, students and other groups staged protests and demonstrations demanding that universities, banks, cities, and other entities divest themselves of any financial holdings in firms doing business in South Africa.

This flier promotes a march and rally as part of a national day of protest on June 16, 1988, the 12th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in which hundreds of Black South African schoolchildren were killed by police during a peaceful protest. The flier, published by the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid, describes three demands: an end to US government and corporate support for South Africa, equal educational opportunities for all both in South Africa and in the US, and for the US to stop supplying military equipment to the South African state.