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MSS Apartheid
Ferguson, Ed.
Ed Ferguson Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook
1980-2012
1980-1982
0.1 cubic foot
1 box
The Ed Ferguson Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook documents the
protest and educational campaign led by the Oregon State University (OSU) African Students' Association in response
to OSU wrestling coach Dale Thomas' association with the South African wrestling community. Ed Ferguson, a specialist in African history, was a faculty member in the History Department at Oregon State University from 1979 to 1991.
Materials in English.
Biographical Note:
Ed Ferguson, a specialist in African history, was a faculty member in the History Department at Oregon State University from 1979 to 1991. Soon after arriving at Oregon State in 1979, Ferguson became advisor to the campus African Students' Association. He also established ties with anti-apartheid activities in Eugene, Salem, and Portland as part of the state-wide anti-apartheid movement in Oregon.
The Ed Ferguson Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook consists of newspaper clippings and other related materials assembled by Ed Ferguson. The scrapbook documents the protest and educational
campaign led by the Oregon State University (OSU) African Students' Association (ASA) during 1980-1982 in response to OSU
wrestling coach Dale Thomas' association with the South African wrestling community.
Thomas' hosting of visiting South African coaches and a proposed team tour of that
country drew fire because of an international ban on competition with South African
athletes as a protest of the racist apartheid political system.
The clippings are primarily from the
Daily Barometer campus newspaper and the local Corvallis Gazette-Times. The scrapbook also includes items from the Oregonian and newspapers published in Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, Redmond, Prineville, and John Day. The clippings include editorials about the campaign, articles about campus presentations
sponsored by ASA on apartheid, reports of public campus forums, letters to the editor by Ferguson, and news stories about Ferguson's involvement in the forums. In addition to clippings, the scrapbook includes a lengthy July 14, 1981 letter to OSU President Robert MacVicar from the African Students' Association (ASA) and news releases issued by the ASA.
This scrapbook is a photocopy of the original compilation and is titled
Enforcing the International Sports Boycott of South Africa at OSU: News
Clippings from the Struggle. It includes a brief introduction written by Ferguson in 2012 as well as a description of the Oregon Anti-Apartheid Files, of which the original scrapbook is a component. The Oregon Anti-Apartheid Files were donated by Ferguson to the African Activist Archive at Michigan State University in 2012.
The full scrapbook is available online.
Collection is open for research.
Ed Ferguson Oregon Anti-Apartheid Scrapbook (MSS Apartheid), Oregon State University Special
Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
The scrapbook was donated to the Special
Collections & Archives Research Center by Ferguson in 2012.
Additional materials documenting anti-apartheid protests in Oregon are part of the African Activist Archive at Michigan State University. Additional materials documenting apartheid protests and South African disinvestment at Oregon State University are part of the Associated Students of Oregon State University (ASOSU) Records (RG 011). The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers also include items pertaining to the apartheid protests.
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