I took these pictures of a protest rally at Yale in fall 1995.  I was there on assignment as a photographer for the Yale Daily News, America's oldest college daily newspaper.

The protest rally was part of a year-long effort by various student groups to convince the Yale Corporation (the university's board of directors) to sell off (disinvest, often mistakenly spelled "divest") the millions of dollars of stock investments that they held in companies (such as IBM and Shell) that were doing business in the (then-white governed state of) South Africa. The protests took the form of a shantytown built outside the main administration building; red paint thrown on the building; costumed protesters lining the path of the inaugural procession in September 1986; and a few peaceful mass arrests on the streets of New Haven.

It was about two years later that the South African government changed its structure to abolish its policy of Apartheid and allow voting privileges to non-whites.  I don't remember whether the Yale Corporation had changed its investment policy by that point or not.