Countryman describes the relationships with, and reactions from members of the faculty and administration at Yale during the movement.
Countryman identifies the larger support groups and networks that helped the activists at yale organize and sustain the movement.
Countryman describes some of the successes of the movements at Yale and on other college campuses, as well as the motivations surrounding the 1984 presidential election and larger issues of race in the U.S.
Countryman gives his own analysis of the broader legacies of anti-apartheid activism at Yale and beyond.