“All what we fought for is not what is going on right now. It is a tragedy that he lived and saw what was happening, we cannot pretend like South Africa is not in crisis, our country is in crisis and anyone who cannot see that is just bluffing themselves.”
– 2017
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WINNIE MADIKIZELA MANDELA
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MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
Honored with many awards, Mary McLeod Bethune’s life was celebrated with a memorial statue in Washington DC in 1974, and a postage stamp in 1985. Her final residence is a National Historic Site.
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JOSEPHINE BAKER
On June 3, 1906, Freda Josephine McDonald was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents, both entertainers, performed throughout the segregated Midwest often bringing her on stage during their shows.
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RUBY BRIDGES
Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public schools.
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CLIP: South Africa – Steve Biko on the rise of African nationalism in the 1970s
teve Biko describes the full range of measures employed by the South African government to supress any kind of political activity within the African community.
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CLIP: SOUTH AFRICA – SOWETO UPRISING, 1976
Although students protested about this peacefully they were met with tear gas and bullets from security forces. T
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CLIP: POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, USA, 1963
The Alabama state police brutally attacked the marchers, using fire hoses, dogs, and tear gas
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CLIP: Life in the South African townships, 1957
The appalling conditions in the townships are clearly demonstrated by some powerful footage and penetrating commentary.
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THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE, SOUTH AFRICA
In March 1960, Robert Sobukwe, a leader in the anti-apartheid Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) organized the town’s first anti-apartheid protest. In order to reduce the possibility of violence he wrote a letter to the Sharpeville police commissioner announcing the upcoming protest and emphasizing that its participants would be non-violent.
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CLIP: Reactions of white South Africans to Sharpeville Massacre, 1960
There is also a running undercurrent of the belief in their own superiority.