The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

A lecture by Caroline Hunter, followed by a conversation with Drew Thompson, Associate Professor at Bard Graduate Center.

In 1970, Black employees at Polaroid discovered their employer’s equipment was being sold to the South African government to create ID cards and passbooks under the apartheid system and organized as the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement. In this presentation, educator and activist Caroline Hunter recounts her experiences as a co-organizer of a grassroots boycott that forced the Polaroid Corporation to withdraw from South Africa.