In recent years, expressions of individual Black-American interest in South Africa, in both government and private sectors, have become highly visible. Insofar as government is concerned, Andrew Young and Don McHenry, both United States ambassadors to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter, are the best examples. First Young, then McHenry, spent large amounts of their time and energy, more than all of their predecessors combined, addressing the issue of apartheid in South Africa, the limitations on the human rights of Blacks there, and attempting to accelerate the movement toward the independence of Namibia. Instances of private initiatives are more plentiful but less well known. Two good cases in point are the Reverend Leon Sullivan, a Black Baptist minister from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and director of the General Motors Corporation who authored the Sullivan Principles, an equal employment opportunities guide for American business in South Africa, and Franklin A. Thomas, president of the Ford Foundation, who chaired the prestigious Study Commission on United States Policy Toward Southern Africa, which produced the acclaimed policy study South Africa: Time Running Out (Thomas, 1981).