The American Committee on Africa (ACOA), formed in 1953, supported campaigns of nonviolent protests against apartheid led by the African National Congress as well as other anticolonial struggles throughout the continent. Records in this series summarize the entire range of ACOA activities in America and abroad, including its lobbying, educational work and foreign student exchange programs, organization of boycotts, sponsoring of conferences, and development of an antiapartheid network within America. The Series consists of two parts: 

• Part 1. ACOA Executive Committee minutes and National Office memoranda, 1952-1975 (6 reels)
• Part 2. Correspondence and subject files on South Africa, 1952-1985 (45 reels)