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U.S. Congressional Hearings Collection

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The documents in this collection are a selection of congressional documents related to Southern Africa, particularly illustrating the central role played by the Subcommittee on Africa in the House of Representatives, as well as other congressional committees, in challenging executive branch policy and supporting action in favor of African liberation. The scanned documents come from the personal libraries of William Minter and Allen Isaacman. Scanning and OCR were done by the Aluka project of JSTOR (http://www.aluka.org), where the collection is also available on-line.

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Introduction and Background Notes

U.S. Congressional Hearings and Reports

1. Activities of Nondiplomatic Representatives of Foreign Principals in the United States (387 pages)
   Committee on Foreign Relations; United States Senate, 1963
2. Report of Special Study Mission to Southern Africa (181 pages)
   Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1969
3. Economic Sanctions against Rhodesia (127 pages)
   Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1971
4. U.S. Business Involvement in Southern Africa, Part I (623 pages)
   Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1971
5. U.S. Business Involvement in Southern Africa, Part II (563 pages)
   Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1971
6. Faces of Africa: Diversity and Progress; Repression and Struggle, Report of Special Study Missions to Africa (478 pages)
   Special Study Mission; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1972
7. Implementation of the U.S. Arms Embargo (Against Portugal and South Africa, and Related Issues (404 pages)
   Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1973
8. Future Direction of U.S. Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia (204 pages)
   Subcommittee on Africa and Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1973
9. Implications for U.S. International Legal Obligations of the Presence of the Rhodesian Information Office in the United States, Part I (178 pages)
   Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1973
10. Importation of Rhodesian Chrome (115 pages)
    Subcommittee on African Affairs; Committee on Foreign Affairs; United States Senate, 1973
11. Repeal of the Rhodesian Chrome Amendment (155 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa and Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1974
12. U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa (529 pages)
    Committee on Foreign Relations, 1975
13. Rhodesian Sanctions Bill (70 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa and Subcommittee on International Organization; Committee on International Relations; House of Representatives, 1977
14. United States Policy Toward Rhodesia (75 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on International Relations; House of Representatives, 1977
15. U.S. Corporate Interests in Africa (228 pages)
    Committee on Foreign Relations; United States Senate, 1978
16. Current Situation in Namibia (39 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1979
17. South Africa: Change and Confrontation, Report of a Study Mission to South Africa (34 pages)
    Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1980
18. Aid to Zimbabwe (23 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1980
19. Possibility of a Resource War in Southern Africa (123 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1981
20. United States Policy toward Southern Africa: Focus on Namibia, Angola, and South Africa (68 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1981
21. U.S. Minerals Dependence on South Africa (44 pages)
    Committee on Foreign Relations; United States Senate, 1982
22. Enforcement of the United States Arms Embargo against South Africa (95 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1982
23. Africa: Observations on the Impact of American Foreign Policy and Development Programs in Six African Countries. Report of a Congressional Study Mission to Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Angola, and Nigeria (87 pages)
    Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1982
24. Regional Destabilization in Southern Africa (178 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1982
25. U.S. Educational Assistance in South Africa: Critical Policy Issues, Report of a Staff Study Mission to South Africa (41 pages)
    Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1982
26. Controls on Exports to South Africa (324 pages)
    Subcommittees on International Economic Policy and Trade and on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1983
27. U.S. Corporate Activities in South Africa (329 pages)
    Subcommittees on International Economic Policy and Trade and on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1983
28. Namibia and Regional Destabilization in Southern Africa (128 pages)
    Subcommittee on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1983
29. Oversight of the Administration's Implementation of the Comprehensive Antiapartheid Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-440) and an Assessment of Recent South African Political and Economic Developments (298 pages)
    Subcommittees on International Economic Policy and Trade, and on Africa; Committee on Foreign Affairs; House of Representatives, 1988