Record

RepositoryJesuits in Britain Archives
Ref NoABSI/SJ/169/3/10
TitleMaterial on South Africa
Date1944-1968
LevelFile
DescriptionDocuments 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.
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
Printed document
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to archive material in the Jesuits in Britain Archives.
LanguageDutch
French
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/955Hurley; Denis Eugene (1915-2004); Roman Catholic Archbishop; Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI)1915-2004
DS/UK/1802Wheelan; William Patrick (1907-1966); Roman Catholic Archbishop; Oblates of Mary Immaculate1907-1966

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