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Letter from Sidney Kark to the principal of the University of Natal, 1957

Courtesy Jeremy D. Kark, MD, PhD

Dr. Sidney Kark criticized the South African government’s policy of apartheid, a legal system of racial segregation. In 1957, he wrote this letter to the University of Natal criticizing the government’s interference in his work as a member of the faculty and resigned in protest.

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