U-Matic

African American World Festival 1989
Tape 1, Synopism

U-Matic tape number one from a series of seven shot at the 1989 African World Festival in Hart Plaza. This tape features the first portion of a panel discussion about the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

After a brief snippet of television commercials, presumably left over from a prior recording on the tape, the recording begins with the panel already under way. After some brief remarks, the host Paul Kofi Egbo, introduces the panel: Dr. Amer Araim of the United Nations Center Against Apartheid; Prexy Nesbitt, a consultant to Mozambique; Lisa Crumes, an anti-apartheid activist from the American Committee on Africa; a political science student from Michigan State University; Martha Norman a civil rights activist who worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and the moderator Barbara Ransby, founder of the Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Education.

Ransby then gives a brief introduction and then passes the microphone to Araim. Araim then speaks at length about the United Nations' approach toward South Africa. Then the student from Michigan State University talks about the history and regional impact of the apartheid regime in South Africa in Mozambique, Angola, and Namibia. He also discusses methods of resistance, and explains that further efforts are needed before negotiations can begin. Then Prexy Nesbitt talks about ties between the American Civil Rights movement and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The tape ends during his presentation.

The video is on a 3M UCA-60 U-Matic tape with a handwritten 3M label on its top. The tape is housed within a black plastic latching case with a matching label on its cover.