The Central Administration Series, which contains the majority of the records in the collection, documents the deliberations over divestment between Presidents McGill and Sovern, the Board of Trustees, the University Senate, students, alumni, and faculty. The series contains the official resolutions and statements by the Trustees and its Finance Committee (led by Anthony Knerr), the Senate, as well as the Ad Hoc Committee on University Investments in Corporations Doing Business in South Africa. Other materials include background research and reports on South Africa and corporate responsibility, meeting notes and memos, and stockholder reports. There is also correspondence with related stakeholders including companies, Columbia students and alumni, and administrators from other universities. Box 3, labeled South Africa I-XI, contains records sent to and from Marion Jemmott, the University Secretary in the early 1980s, who was responsible for supporting the work of the Board of Trustees. The rest of the folders contain materials from the Office of the President.
Box 1 Folder 8-9
Corporate Responsibility 1979, 1972-1979
Box 1 Folder 7
Trustees Statement on South Africa June 5, 1978, 1973-1979
Box 1 Folder 15
President McGill Statement, 1973-1978
Box 1 Folder 5-6
Correspondence, 1977-1978
Box 4 Folder 2-3
Memos and Correspondence, 1977-1979
Box 1 Folder 14
Corporate Responsibility Ethical Guidelines, 1978
Box 2 Folder 1
Statements and Correspondence, 1978
Box 1 Folder 16
Corporate Responsibility Statements I, 1978-1979
Box 2 Folder 2
Morgan Guaranty Information South Africa, 1978-1979
Box 2 Folder 3-4
Corporate Responsibility, 1978-1979
Box 2 Folder 5-6
Corporate Responsibility Columbia University Statements II, 1978-1979
Box 1 Folder 12-13
South Africa: 1980-1981, 1978-1981
Box 2 Folder 9
Sullivan Principles Reports, 1978-1982
Box 4 Folder 4
Memos and Correspondence, 1978-1987
Box 1 Folder 10-11
Corporate Responsibility 1979 II, 1979-1980
Box 4 Folder 16
Time Running Out: The Report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa, 1981
Box 3 Folder 1-18
South Africa I-XI, 1981-1987
Box 3 contains folders labeled South Africa I-XI, which come from University Secretary Marion Jemmott and contain a variety of materials related to divestment and to the Board of Trustees' role in the process. The original folder order and titles were maintained.
Box 2 Folder 10
South Africa, 1982
Box 2 Folder 7-8
South Africa, 1982-1983
Box 4 Folder 12
Michael Sovern Notes and Resources on Divestment, 1983
Box 2 Folder 15-16
Trustees Statement, 1983-1984
Box 4 Folder 1
Trustees Statements, Meeting Notes and Memos, 1983-1984
Box 2 Folder 11
Columbia University Current Material on South African Investments, 1984
Box 2 Folder 12
Columbia University South Africa Related Investments: Background Material, 1984
Box 2 Folder 13-14
Columbia University Analysis of South Africa Proxy Resolutions, 1984
Box 1 Folder 3-4
Reports, 1984-1985
Box 1 Folder 1
One Step in the Wrong Direction: An Analysis of the Sullivan Principles as a Strategy for Opposing Apartheid, 1985
Box 1 Folder 2
United States Congreess Anti-Apartheid Act, 1985
The Student Protests Series documents the response to the Coalition for a Free South Africa's blockade and hunger strike in April 1985. This small series consists of letters and phone call records from Columbia students, alumni, and students from other colleges voicing support for the protesters. There is also one folder related to disciplinary action against the protesters, which includes President Sovern's statement following the protest and an amicus brief filed by Columbia Law professors arguing against disciplinary action. The Series also contains a video "Adapt or Die: The End of White Politics in South Africa," and a digital file created by Danny Armstrong, a student protest leader, which includes flyers, letters, articles, and other materials related to his experience fighting for divestment. In addition to the records in Series II, a number of folders in Series I contain flyers from student protests in and leading up to 1985. These flyers are mixed in with the materials collected by the President and Trustees. See box 1 folder 5, box 2 folder 10, box 3 folder 9 and box 4 folder 1.
Box Laptop
The South African Divestment Movement: A Personal Perspective, 1981-1985
A Microsoft Word file containing images and documents put together by the Coalition for a Free South African chairman Danny Armstrong. This file can be viewed on a laptop in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library's reading room.
Box 4 Folder 17
ABC Close-Up Adapt or Die, 1983
Box 4 Folder 7
Phone Calls, 1985
Box 4 Folder 8
Divestment: A Leadership Publication, 1985
Box 4 Folder 9-10
Letters to Michael Sovern, 1985
Box 4 Folder 11
Divestment Protests - Disciplinary Action, 1985
Box 4 Folder 13-14
Petitions - Divestment Protests, form Letters in Support, 1985
Box 4 Folder 15
Letters to Michael Sovern from Brown University Students, 1985