Dennis Daly: There were protest marches, demonstrations and arrests on college campuses and in Washington, D.C. this past year as thousands of men and women join to fight racial injustice; but unlike the protests of the '60s, this time the target was South Africa and the racially repressive system of apartheid. Reverend Jesse Jackson led one of those protests …
Reverend Jesse Jackson: "We must use our total moral, political and economic resources to oppose a system of apartheid in South Africa."
Dennis Daly: One of the most vocal critics of apartheid within South Africa was Bishop Desmond Tutu, a black Anglican Bishop who had the year before been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. When the South African Government established a state of emergency in more than 30 townships this past July, Bishop Tutu spoke out …
Bishop Desmond Tutu: "It is quite unjust that there should be a state of emergency, because we will get true justice, peace and stability from the barrel of a gun."
Dennis Daly: Despite Bishop Tutu's warnings about violence in South Africa, by year's end nearly 850 people, mostly black, would be killed in racial unrest in that country.