Flashpoint by Derek Charles Catsam - 9781538144695

FlashpointHow a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement\nAuthor(s): Derek Charles Catsam\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781538144695, 978-1538144695\nSynopsis\nForty years ago, a South African rugby tour in the United States became a crucial turning point for the nations burgeoning protests against apartheid and a test of American foreign policy.\n\nIn Flashpoint: How a Little-Known Sporting Event Fueled America's Anti-Apartheid Movement, Derek Charles Catsam tells the fascinating story of the Springboks 1981 US tour and its impact on the countrys anti-apartheid struggle. The US lagged well behind the rest of the Western world when it came to addressing the vexing question of South Africas racial policies, but the rugby tour changed all that. Those who had been a part of the countrys tiny anti-apartheid struggle for decades used the visit from one of white South Africas .