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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 282 audiocassetes.

Summary

1. The collection consists of 282 audio recordings and 31 moving image recordings related to Brutus' activities as an opponent of apartheid.

Subject

1. Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009
2. Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
3. South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee
4. Dennis Brutus Defense Committee
5. Apartheid
6. Anti-apartheid movements
7. Race discrimination -- South Africa
8. Sports -- South Africa
9. Discrimination in sports
10. African literature
11. South African poetry (English)
12. Black people -- South Africa
13. South Africa -- Race relations

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Brutus 1989-67

Biography (note)

1. Born in 1924, Dennis Brutus is a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. He founded the South African Sports Association in 1961 and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) in 1963, and was subsequently arrested and jailed, placed under house arrest, and banned from all literary, academic and political activities. He went into exile in 1966 and has lived in the United States since 1970, emerging over the years as a prominent lecturer and author, a professor of African literature and a major spokesperson in the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Dennis Brutus archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division: Dennis Brutus Papers, 1970-1990. (Sc MG 289). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Dennis Brutus Collection). Posters can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division.

Author

1. Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009, creator.

Title

1. Dennis Brutus audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [1989]

Biography

1. Born in 1924, Dennis Brutus is a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. He founded the South African Sports Association in 1961 and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) in 1963, and was subsequently arrested and jailed, placed under house arrest, and banned from all literary, academic and political activities. He went into exile in 1966 and has lived in the United States since 1970, emerging over the years as a prominent lecturer and author, a professor of African literature and a major spokesperson in the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Dennis Brutus archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division: Dennis Brutus Papers, 1970-1990. (Sc MG 289). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Dennis Brutus Collection). Posters can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division.

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Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Brutus 1989-67