June 14, 1986
The New York Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council, which organized the tenth anniversary demonstration, stated: “We are calling on people of goodwill in the greater New York area to come together for a massive rally to demonstrate our support for the people of South Africa and to reiterate our demand for divestment, sanctions and boycotts to finally force an end to apartheid.”
In August 1976, just weeks after the Soweto Uprising, the Amsterdam News published an editorial “Soweto or Birmingham?”: “The pictures of dogs, brutality, and viciousness coming out of Soweto, South Africa is a grim reminder of the struggle that was waged against racism here in America...a struggle that still continues...The struggle in Soweto, South Africa is not only an extension of our struggle it is our struggle.“