Photograph caption dated April 12, 1986 reads, "Union leader Bill Robertson, center, decries South African apartheid at a protest outside a Shell Oil station at 3rd Street and Western Avenue. Robertson, executive secretary of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, was joined by a coalition of 50 area civil rights groups yesterday to kick off a Southland boycott of the oil company, joining an already existing nationwide protest of the firm's business connections with South Africa."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (Calif.) Shell Union Oil Corporation Shell Oil Company AFL-CIO Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Protest movements--California--Los Angeles Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Oil industries--California--Los Angeles Apartheid--South Africa Anti-apartheid movements--California--Los Angeles Boycotts--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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