1972
Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) is created to advise the Harvard Corporation on ethics in investment.
1973
Beginning April 22, students take over Mass. Hall for six days, calling for divestment from Gulf Oil, which allegedly aided the Portuguese government fighting rebels in Angola.
1978
Student activists form the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC).
1977
First guidelines to investment in South Africa are established by the University.
1977
In April, 1,500 students block entrances to Mass. Hall after the Corporation decides against divestment in South Africa.
1977
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives honorary degree at Commencement.
1985
Tutu returns to Harvard at the invititation of SASC to speak at the IOP.
1986
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