Committee of African Organizations

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0101 ICS 141
Held at	: Institute of Commonwealth Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/resources/library ›
Full title	: Committee of African Organizations
Date(s)	: c1959-1979
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box (c 120 items)
Name of creator(s)	: Robinson | Dorothy | fl 1959-2000 | anti-apartheid activist Committee of African Organizations
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Committee of African Organizations was a London-based group giving support to exiled politicians from all over Anglophone Africa. Dorothy Robinson was Administrative Secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1962-1965.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The papers comprise newspaper cuttings from the African press and elsewhere in the world, and pamphlets produced by the Committee of African Organizations and some other groups, [1959-1979].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

Open although advance notice should be given. However, access to individual items in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library archival collections may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.

Conditions governing reproduction:

A photocopying and digitisation service is available, at the discretion of the Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests to publish, or to quote from original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager.

Finding aids:

See link to repository catalogue

Archival Information

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2008