ByGeorge!

October 2007

Did You Know?


Apartheid Protest Preserved in Kogan Plaza

Tucked away in Kogan Plaza is a tribute to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s. As the international community pressured South Africa to release African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela from jail, GW students inscribed “Free Mandela” on drying concrete in a campus alleyway. In 1999, the slab of concrete was saved and moved to its current location in Kogan Plaza near the tempietto.



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