Ethnic Studies: Exchange with the United States

One of the Uitenhage and Durban activists referenced SCN, a Christian movement that had an “exchange program with the United States where leadership would be sent to the United States. I was 11 or 12 when I joined it”. It was unclear the exact role of these leadership organizations or the structure of these organizations in the United States. Anzanian students were sent to the United States and created the South African Students Committee and SASCO. They were sent to assimilate and learn the US way of life, and to try to convince them to create reform, and not revolution. The South African government wanted them to be leaders in this way.

[23 January 2015], Box MG440, Folder 11, South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.