where the west had huge investments in mining interests. to use that influence to free him and fight apartheid. that didn t happen. years passed. decades passed. an international movement sprung to boycott business, to di vest from them. to impose, to try to get governments to impose formal sanctions on that regime. it took hold here in the united states in the 1980s a. young student in los angeles asked his school s administration to stop investing in south african companies. that student s name was barak obama. free mandela became a popular rallying cry. not everyone in america was on board with freeing mandela and fighting the apartheid regime a. bill was introduced in congress. the anti-apartheid act of 19 necks would require the complete withdrawal.
[ music playing ] that was the song sun city, in a way nelson mandela and the anti-apartheid movement permeated the 1980s from all star videos to the cosby show t. oldest daughter named her newborn twins nelson and whenny. organized labor behind boycotts, investment sanctions after years of debate as we said, congress passed a sweeping sanctions law in 19 ex-. president reagan took out his rehave to pen and september it back to congress. i want to welcome former senator cohn. he was among the republicans to override that veto. he also served as secretary of defense during clinton s second terrell. take us back to that moment, eleanor cook in the last segment set up what a historic moment that was to have a president s
of american politics who were on the wrong side of history, but he wasn t the only one. 17 republicans and four democrats in the house voted to sustain reagan s veto of the sanctions bill a. republican from wyoming dick cheney was one of them. 27 republicans voted to sustain them. babcock ran of mississippi. there were plenty of votes. sanctions did go into effect. but for some on the right, nelson mandela remained a punching bag. we didn t meet with one representative of the african national congress. the anc. you know, bishop tutu s crowd which has orchestrated and financed by the soviet union. willie mandela, winnie mandela the wife of mandela has boasted we have the tears, we have the gasoline and we have the
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