Protest for Divestment at MIT, 1990
MIT student Sean M. Dougherty '93, a photographer for The Tech, being arrested during a Coalition Against Apartheid demonstration, 9 April 1990.
Sean M. Dougherty [Class of 1993] was taken into custody by the Metropolitan District Commission Police on Monday, April 9, 1990 at one of a series of demonstrations organized by the Coalition Against Apartheid against MIT's opposition to divesting from companies doing business in South Africa. At the time he was taking photographs for the MIT student newspaper The Tech and was not part of the protest. He was charged with failure to obey a police order and disorderly conduct. Five other people were arrested that day. Twenty-six people had been arrested the previous Friday. Most of the people arrested were students, along with one MIT lecturer and four people not associated with MIT.
