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- ↑ Goodman, Amy (Host & Executive Producer) (December 13, 2013). Polaroid & Apartheid: Inside the Beginnings of the Boycott, Divestment Movement Against South Africa (Television Broadcast). Retrieved February 11, 2021.
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