Poster - boycott Coca Cola

Coke Sweetens Apartheid

Unknown, United States, 1985, Ken Lawrence Collection                                                                                                                                                                                                                            In the 1980s there was a strong movement to boycott Coca-Cola products due to their doing business in South Africa where the government enforced an official policy of apartheid that allowed for racial discrimination against non-Whites. Penn State’s Committee for Justice in South Africa joined the boycott in 1989.