MSS 259
John Harrington’s South Africa Papers 1972-1995
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Contact Information:
Special Collections
Michigan State University Libraries
100 Main Library
East Lansing, MI 48824
517.884.6471
E-mail:spc@mail.lib.msu.edu
URL: http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu
Date Received:
2004
Date Processed:
Inventoried: July 2004 and Arranged: August 2004
Acquisitions Information:
Gift of John Harrington, 2004.
Preferred citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
Box number, Folder number and/or title, John Harrington’s South Africa Papers, MSS 259, Special Collections, Michigan State University Main Library
Copyright Notice:
Copyright is retained by the author of the items in this archive, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Usage Restrictions:
None
Photoduplication Restrictions:
Collection Summary:
This collection of papers on the movement for divestment from apartheid South Africa focuses chiefly on California, but there also is material on Michigan (including MSU), Wisconsin, Connecticut, etc. Includes correspondence, reports, legislative bills, court records, memos, and articles and press clippings on the financial and legal aspects of investment in South Africa and divestiture from apartheid South Africa, as well as some anti-apartheid movement materials and photographs. It is arranged into 4 series: 1) Correspondence (1972-1991) 2) News Clippings and Press Releases 3) Visual Materials and 4) Publications, Personal Statements, and Legal Documents.
The John Harrington Archives is part of the African Activist Archive at MSU Libraries and is therefore complemented by other parts of this collection.
Historical Background:
John Harrington was consultant to the Senate Select Committee on Investment Priorities and Objectives. In June 1972, John Harrington authored a legislative report for the Assembly Office of Research entitled “California’s Economic Involvement with Firms Operating in Southern Africa.” He also assisted the State Legislature’s Black Caucus draft divestment legislation. He subsequently authored additional legislative reports through the 1970s and early 1980s. He served as Chair of the Governor’s Public Investment Task Force under Governor Edmund Brown and submitted its final report in October 1981. As a publicly appointed trustee of the Sacramento City Employees, he presented documentation of U.S. corporate complicity in the deaths of hundreds of individuals in Southern Africa to the Sacramento Board of Administration, Investment and Fiscal Management. He testified before several state legislative bodies and provided expert testimony in an Oregon legal case. Authored “The Economics of Divestment” [sound recording, Pacifica Radio Archive, 1985] with Gay Seidman and Walter Turner.
Processing Note:
The donation was inventoried by Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer, in July 2004, and arranged by Lisa Robinson in August 2004.
Arrangement: Series 1 - 4:
Series 1: Correspondence, 1972-1991
Series 2: News Clippings and Press Releases
Series 4: Publications, Personal Statements, and Legal Document
Series 1: Correspondence, 1972-1991
| Box | Folder | Description |
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| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, 1972-1982 |
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| 2 | Correspondence, 1983-1991 | |
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Series 2: News Clippings and Press Releases
| Box | Folder | Description |
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| 1 | 3 | News Clippings and Press Releases, 1972-1988 |
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Series 3: Visual Material
| Box | Folder | Description |
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| 1 | 4 | Photographs, c. 1985 |
| International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) photographs, c. 1985 | ||
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| 5 | Poster | |
| Poster: “South African Apartheid and Socially Responsible Investment Oct 30- Nov 12” Reed College. Portland. OR. Speaker: John Harrington. No Date. |
Series 4: Publications, Personal Statements, and Legal Documents
| Box | Folder | Description |
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| 1 | 6 | Statement to Democratic National Platform Committee Regional Hearing, San Francisco, 12 June 1972 John C. Harrington. 6 [2] leaves. Includes handwritten note: ‘this is the first time a platform has ever mentioned Southern Africa or Africa”. |
| 7 | The State of California and Southern African Racism: California’s Economic Involvement with Firms Operating in Southern Africa Prepared by Assembly Office of Research; analyst John C. Harrington. (Sacramento: Assembly Office of Research, June 1972) 53 p. | |
| 8 | Assembly Resolutions, 1972-1973 | |
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| 9 | University of California Investments: Racist or Responsible? by John C. Harrington, Administrative Assistant to Assemblyman John F. Dunlap (Los Angeles: African Activist Association, African Studies Center UCLA, March 1973) 64 p. | |
| 10 | Slander and Racism as Tools of Government Researchers …by Jacques P. Lott, Light (LMV) April-May 1973, 6 p. | |
| 11 | [California] Senate Joint Resolution No. 7--Relative to apartheid in southern Africa Introduced by Senators Dunlap, Holden, Moscone, Petris, and Robbins. 21 January 1975. | |
| 12 | Background Statement: Corporate Responsibility Legislation. Senator John F. Dunlap, 25 February 1976. 3 leaves. Photocopy. | |
| 13 | The South African Connection: California Public Investments and Social Responsibility. Staff Report by John C. Harrington. August 1977. Various pagings, (ca. 200 p.) | |
| 14 | Statement of Senator John F. Dunlap, Bank of America Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, 25 April 1978. | |
| 15 | KZAP taping, 17 May 1978. 2 leaves. | |
| 16 | “Outline of Presentation, Special University of California Board of Regents Meeting on South Africa, U.S. Corporate Investments and University of California Investment Portfolio.” John Harrington. 8 June 1978. 10 leaves | |
| 17 | Del Monte, 1978 | |
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| 18 | U.S. Business in South Africa: Pressures from the Home Front. David M. Liff (Washington DC: Investor Responsibility Research Center, October 1978). 74 p. | |
| 19 | The Oil Industry in South Africa.David M. Liff (Washington DC: Investor Responsibility Research Center, January 1979). 37 p. | |
| 20 | “Divestment of South African equities: How Risky?” Andrew Rudd, Journal of Portfolio Management. [Spring 1979]. Photocopy. | |
| 21 | “A Proposal: South Africa – Divesture and Reinvestment in Sacramento Housing.” John Harrington and Grantland Johnson (Sacramento: California Alternative Investment Task Force, 14 August 1979). 8 leaves. And letter re Proposal listed above by John Harrington, 27 August 1979. 2 leaves. | |
| 22 | Recent Developments in Labor Practices in South Africa (Washington DC: South Africa Review Service, Investor Responsibility Research Center, June 1982) 29 p. | |
| 23 | The Modernization of Apartheid. Meg Voorhes (Washington DC: Investor Responsibility Research Center, August 1982). 46 p. | |
| 24 | “The Role and Impact of United States Investment in South Africa.” November 1982. 62 leaves | |
| 2 | 1 | Assembly Bill No. 808 |
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| 2 | Prospectus: Trust for Balanced Investment. 6 May 1983. 32 p. | |
| 3 | “Financial Implications of Divestment of South African-Related Stocks by Blake R. Grossman and William F. Sharpe. 46 leaves. 12-1983? | |
| 4 | The Financial Implications of Divestment: A Review of the Evidence. Fantu Cheru (New York: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, June 1984) 59 p. | |
| 5 | Portfolio Manger’s Investment Strategies: Unrestricted Investing in South Africa. Prepared by Henry Adebonojo and J. Russell Simmons, Jr. (Atlanta: Cartwright & Daniels, Inc., Nov. 1984) 29, xxii p. | |
| 6 | Plaintiff’s Trial Memorandum for Associated Students v. Oregon Investment Council. November 1984. Circuit Court of Oregon. 146 p. | |
| 2 | 7 | Reporter’s Transcript of Proceeding on Appeal 29-30 November 1984, 3-4 December 1985. Circuit Court of Oregon. 4 volumes. Volume 1 |
| 8 | Reporter’s Transcript of Proceeding on Appeal 29-30 November 1984, 3-4 December 1985. Circuit Court of Oregon. 4 volumes. Volume 2 | |
| 9 | Reporter’s Transcript of Proceeding on Appeal 29-30 November 1984, 3-4 December 1985. Circuit Court of Oregon. 4 volumes. Volume 3 | |
| Box | Folder | Description |
| 3 | 1 | Reporter’s Transcript of Proceeding on Appeal 29-30 November 1984, 3-4 December 1985. Circuit Court of Oregon. 4 volumes. Volume 4 |
| 2 | “A Proposal to the Officers and Directors of the Napa Valley College Foundation for Full Divestment from Companies that do Business in South Africa.” by Charles Raymond for Napa Valley College Students for a Free South Africa 16 leaves. No Date Plus article attached: “Is Reconciliation Possible in South Africa” David A. Hoekema, The Christian Century, 23 May 1984. Photocopy. | |
| 3 | Speech of David Eager, Meidinger Asset Planning Services, Inc. to Annual Conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council. [3] leaves 1984? | |
| 4 | The Impact of South African-Related Divestment on Equity Portfolio Performance. (Washington DC: South Africa Review Service, Investor Responsibility Research Center, January 1985). 44 p. Photocopy | |
| 5 | Divestment for South Africa: An Investment in Hope. Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) Presbyterian Church, 13 January 1985. 81 p. | |
| 6 | Memorandum re Associated Students v. Oregon Investment Council. James M. Campbell, attorney. 1 February 1985. 25 leaves. | |
| 7 | The Financial Aspects of Divestment. No Date. Claire Brown and Michael Reich, based on presentation by John Harrington, April 1985. 3 p. | |
| 8 | Divestment of South Africa Investments: A Legal Analysis for Foundations, Other Charitable Institutions and Pension Funds: A Report to the New World Foundation. Thomas A. Troyer, Robert A. Boisture, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered. 15 April 1985. 53, 3 p. | |
| 9 | AB 134 and AB 1134, Assemblywoman Maxine Waters: Assembly Committee on Public Investments, Finance, and Bonded Indebtedness, 29 April 1985 (ca. 170 leaves). Contents: What is apartheid? (pp. 3-35); Supporters of South African Divestment (pp. 36-70); And what about the Sullivan Principles? (pp. 71-84); A Question of Faith & Morality (pp. 85-131); Dollars & Sense (pp. 132ff). | |
| 10 | Perspective: College Actions On South African Investments Elaine El-Khawas and Barbara McKenna (Washington DC: American Council on Education, May 1985) 45, [4] p. Photocopy. | |
| 11 | UC Faculty for Full Divestment: Alternative Treasurer’s Report. Clair Brown, Michael Watts; (plus attached press article: “A deadline for South Africa”, by Leon H. Sullivan, in Oakland Tribune) June 1985. | |
| 12 | Testimony of Hilary Goldstone, Attorney at Law. Re: Phased divestment by the city’s pension funds in U.S. companies doing business in South Africa. June 1985. 13 leaves. | |
| 13 | The Regents of the University of California Treasurer’s Report on South African Investments. Sections I and II. June 1985. Various pagings (several hundred pages). Section 1 | |
| Box | Folder | Description |
| 4 | 1 | The Regents of the University of California Treasurer’s Report on South African Investments. Section I and II. June 1985. Various pagings (several hundred pages). |
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| 2 | The Situation in South Africa | |
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| 3 | Executive Order from Gov. George Deukmejian. September 1985. | |
| 4 | Is U.S. Interbank Lending in South Africa for U.S. – R.S.A. Trade? With a Listing of the Overall Exposure of Individual U.S. Banks by John E. Lind. (California/Nevada Interfaith Committee on Corporate Responsibility, Sept. 1985) 14 p. | |
| 5 | Of Prophets and Profits vol. 8 no. 2 Sept. 1985. (California / Nevada interfaith committee on corporate responsibility) | |
| 6 | South Africa and the Portfolio Manager . . . The Impact and Implications of Divestiture (The Leuthold Group). October 1985. | |
| 7 | State of California Memorandum to Teacher’s Retirement Board Panel Members, re Schedule for Panel Discussion, by Marilyn Chapman-Woods. November 1985. | |
| 8 | Teachers’ Retirement Board Investment Committee, Agenda including panel discussion on South Africa, November 1985. | |
| 9 | Appellant’s Reply and Brief Answering on Cross-Appeal for Associated Students v. Oregon Investment Council. December 1985. 41 p. | |
| 10 | The Effects of Divestment on The Michigan Retirement System’s Stock Portfolios. “An Analysis of the effects of divestment from South Africa related equities on the Michigan Retirement Systems Stock Portfolios for Governor Blanchard’s Implementation Commission on South African Divestiture” by Dennis J. Grether and Robert B. Zevin. 80 p. Photocopy. 1985. | |
| 11 | Article: “South Africa: A Case for Total Divestment”. John Harrington, Berkeley Planning Journal Vol. 2, no. 1-2 1985. Offprint & photocopy. | |
| 12 | Economic Action against Apartheid: An Overview of the Divestment Campaign and Financial Implications for Institutional Investors by Brooke Baldwin and Theodore Brown (New York: Africa Fund, [1985?] 42, [5] p. | |
| 13 | The Impact of Phase I Divestiture on the Nycers Portfolio. A Report by Peter L. Bernstein with Carol Zipkin, Robert Mnuchin, and Richard West, January 1986. 46 leaves, and various pagings. Photocopy. | |
| 14 | A Study of South African Divestment for the Wisconsin Action Coalition by Howard H. Pohl, Ronald J. Surz, SEI Corporation, January 1986. 66 p. Photocopy. | |
| 15 | South Africa’s Debt at the Time of Crisis by John E. Lind and Diane V. Espaldon (San Francisco: California-Nevada Interfaith Committee on Corporate Responsibility, April 1986). 37 p. | |
| Box | Folder | Description |
| 5 | 1 | Socially Responsible Investing: The Financial and Socio/Economic Issues by Theodore A. Brown, Thomas Van Dyck, and Dean Witter Reynolds. (Pleasanton, CA, The Authors, May 1986). 44 p. |
| 2 | Governor George Deukmejian’s letter and resolution to Univ. of California’s Board of Regents re university and state investment policies, 16 July 1986. 8 p. | |
| 3 | Report on Socially Responsive Investment in the U.S.A. by Giles Chitty, (Salisbury, England: The Financial Initiative, 14 July 1986) 26 p. | |
| 4 | South African Investment: What Investment Managers Should Know. Financial Analysts Journal July/August 1986. | |
| 5 | Memorandum re Oaks Associates. Confidential Private Placement Memorandum. 22 December 1986. Various pagings (ca. 200 p.) | |
| 6 | Divestment: Legacy of Liberation. An annotated chronology of the San Francisco Bay Area anti-apartheid movement Prepared by Rachel Richman, Africa Resource Center 1990 [14] leaves. | |
| 7 | IRRC News for Investors November 1990, includes lead article: “Portfolio Screening by Investment Professional Grows: Concern about Environment Now Surpasses South Africa” | |
| 8 | IRRC News for Investors June 1991, includes lead article: “Proxy Season Results are Tallied; South Africa Remains a Vote-Getter. | |
| 9 | Reform in South Africa: The American Triangle by Edward M. Kerschner, Paine Webber Investment Policy 4 August 1991. 4 p. | |
| 10 | Outline: “South African Investments” 21 May 1995. 3 leaves. | |
| 11 | List of: Publications relative to South Africa, South African related legislation. John Harrington, John Dunlap. No Date. |
