Lawrence Hamm is with David Addams and 80 others.
Below is a piece of film I had never seen before until last night. It was shown as an introduction to a Princeton Class of 1978 panel discussion titled Racial Justice In America After The Election: Where Do We Go From Here? It is footage of an event that took place 42 years ago at Princeton University where I was a student at that time. It shows 210 Princeton Students emerging from Nassau Hall, the administration building, which we had taken over for two days to protest the university’s ties to corporations doing business with the racist white minority government of apartheid South Africa. After we emerged from the building we joined with several hundred other students and marched over to the plaza outside of what was then called the Woodrow Wilson School. This YouTube video is an excerpt from “Divest: Princeton’s 1978 Anti-Apartheid Campaign by David Hackley ‘79. Home digitized from a tape lent by David Addams ‘78. The Zoom forum where the film was shown was held on Sunday evening, November 15, 2020. It included speakers that are Princeton Class of 1978 members who participated in that anti-apartheid campus protest: Adrien Wing, Jonathan Greenberg, David Addams, and myself. Unfortunately, David Hackley who produced this video has passed away. The background music on the video is the song “Johannesburg” by Gil Scott-Heron which was on the album “From South Africa to South Carolina” by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Gil Scott-Heron passed away nearly a decade ago. I am in the film but it may be difficult for you to identify me since I have changed physically over the past 42 years.
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