Folder: S.F. Protests and Picketing-1962.
Newscopy: "SOUTH AFRICAN FREIGHTER PICKETED--Protest against racial discrimination. Longshoremen today refused to unload a freighter because of pickets protesting South African racial discrimination. Fourteen began picketing Pier 19 at 7 a.m. About 80 longshoremen, who showed up at 8 a.m. to unload the freighter Raki refused to cross the picket line and returned to their hiring hall near Fisherman's Wharf. The Raki, a Dutch vessel, is loaded with coffee, hemp, asbestos and other cargos from South Africa. She arrived last night. The pickets represent CORE, the NAACP and the Northern California Committee of Africa, said Mrs. Mary Louise Hooper, 1542 Grove st., their spokesman, Terry Francois, local NAACP president, was one of the demonstrators. The pickets handed longshoremen an appeal to join a boycott of South Africa products. 'Don't buy South African lobster tails, wines or fruits,' it said. The appeal listed racial injusticies in South Africa and demanded 'a demonstration, by people of good will, against intolerable oppression, which must be fought on all fronts-in Mississippi and in South Africa.' Ship clerks, who inventory unloaded cargo, said....[cuts off]."
