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On July 1st, Caroline Hunter received the Rosa Parks Memorial Award at NEA’s annual Human and Civil Rights Gala. As a young woman working at the Polaroid Corporation, Caroline Hunter discovered that Polaroid was supporting the South African government’s apartheid system with the making of ID cards for the passbook all Blacks were required to carry at all times. Caroline and her late husband, Ken Williams (also a Polaroid employee), organized a boycott of Polaroid and pushed for economic disinvestment in South Africa. They lost their jobs, but the boycott was successful. In 1977 Polaroid completely pulled out of South Africa, and the international disinvestment movement eventually crippled apartheid. Quite fittingly for a person of conscience, Caroline went on to become a secondary science and math teacher She has never ceased being a social justice activist.
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