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ABSI - Jesuits in Britain Archives
SJ - Members of the Society (Cataloguing in progress)
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Repository
Jesuits in Britain Archives
Ref No
ABSI/SJ/169/3/10
Title
Material on South Africa
Date
1944-1968
Level
File
Description
Documents on South Africa likely collected by Fr Robert Copeland SJ (he spent 13 years in South Africa).
Includes:
- Apartheid: A Crsis of the Christian Conscience by Archbishop Denis E. Hurley (Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, OMI, 1964).
- The Separate Development or Race Relations, a joint Statement by the Catholic Hierarchy (1964).
- Statement on apartheid by the Bishops in Pretoria on Race Relations (1957).
- Bishop's Pastorals on race and apartheid (1952, 1960, 1962).
- Extracts from apartheid: A Crisis of the Christian Conscience by Archbishop Hurley (1964).
- Press comments and reports on the Statement by Archbishop Willaim Patrick Wheelan on race issues and apartheid (1964).
- A report on the conclusions reached by the South African scholastics during the Scholastics conference at Stonyhurst College with an attached letter addressed to Julien likely from Fr Copeland (15-19 April, 1968).
- A thirteen page summary on South Africa and apartheid by Fr Copeland (1969).
- Several newspaper clippings, one from the Combat Le Journal De Paris (1966) on political writer and historian Mr Jacques Chastenet's opinion on non-white policies in South Africa, the other being a statement of the Bishops of the United States (1958) on discrimination and the Christian conscience.
- A Statement on National Race Crisis by the National Conference of Bishops (1968).
- A copy of The Black Sash journal 'Let no Man put Asunder' (June/July 1964).
- The Meaning of Race by Philip V. Tobias, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1961).
- Newspaper clipping from 8 August 1968 regarding the death of 21 year old University of Cape Town student Mr Bruce Baigrie on his 21st birthday while driving home from a party.
Format
Typescript
Manuscript
Printed document
AccessConditions
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to archive material in the Jesuits in Britain Archives.
Language
Dutch
French
Persons
Code
PersonName
Dates
DS/UK/955
Hurley; Denis Eugene (1915-2004); Roman Catholic Archbishop; Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI)
1915-2004
DS/UK/1802
Wheelan; William Patrick (1907-1966); Roman Catholic Archbishop; Oblates of Mary Immaculate
1907-1966
Album amicorum of George Strachan
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Scottish Catholic Archives
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The National Records of Scotland
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