 Leon Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister active in the civil rights movement, a seat on the GM board - GM's first black board member.Sullivan later sought to have GM and other corporations leave South Africa in protest of the country's apartheid policies.In 1966, Roche issued an apology for the company's efforts to discredit consumer activist Ralph Nader after Nader published the book "Unsafe at Any Speed", which criticized the GM-built Corvair as being unsafe.