Thread by @ZinnEdProject

#tdih 1990, Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years.

The U.S. gov't classified Mandela a terrorist.

While Mandela was in jail, U.S. corporate investment in apartheid South Africa grew, & Ronald Reagan had policy of “constructive engagement.” zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mand…

Hundreds of thousands of people in U.S. & around the world mobilized to oppose apartheid in the 1980s. That successful movement built on decades of links between African liberation movements & activists in the U.S. Rosa Parks in photo ⬇️in D.C. & SNCC in next tweet. #TeachTruth

In March, 1966, James Forman, John Lewis, Bill Hall, Cleve Sellers, & Willie Ricks occupied 14th floor of South African Consulate to “protest the inhuman and barbaric system of apartheid by the South African government.” Read more below at @snccdigital.
snccdigital.org/events/sncc-pr…

Primary significance of Mandela and King was not their willingness to lock arms or hold hands with . . . enemies.

It was their unshakable resolve to do whatever was necessary to bring those enemies to their knees.
-- @BobHerbert via @jacobin ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/bob-…