Washington Free Beacon By Chuck Ross
President Joe Biden’s pick for governor of the Federal Reserve says she led an effort in the 1980s to hold school officials at her alma mater captive until they voted to divest from South Africa. But news accounts from the era raise questions about the claim.
Lisa Cook, an economics professor at Michigan State University, said in a recent interview she led a group of protestors at Spelman College, a predominantly black women’s university in Atlanta, to force the school’s trustees to divest from South Africa over Apartheid. Cook said she and the activists “locked up” the trustees until they voted for divestment, and that the incident received coverage by the New York Times. Cook, who graduated from Spelman in 1986, made a similar claim in 2013.
Spelman’s board of trustees voted on April 27, 1986, to divest shares of South African companies, but there is no record of students detaining officials before the vote. At the time, the New York Times and other outlets reported that trustees voted for divestment a day after then-Atlanta mayor Andrew Young encouraged historically black colleges in the region to do so. A search of Times articles through the paper’s “Timesmachine” archive returns no articles mentioning the incident Cook described…
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