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- 'The classic example of organised and institutionalised racism is South Africa. It's national policy is the incarnation of white supremacy, in the midst of a population which is overwhelmingly Black.'
- News about the American Civil Rights Movementtraveled around the world, after it began in 1954, thanks to the invention of television. TV shared news and stories to those not only in America, but those living millions of milesaway. This sparked many other similar movements across the world.
- CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL
- END APARTHIED
- BLACK VOICES MATTER
- Apartheid was a social system in South Africa while it was under white minority rule. Starting in 1948, social contact between races was strictly prohibited, forcing them to live apart from each other. Laws, touching every aspect of life, kept this racial separation in place. Black people were being denied their basic human rights.
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- In the early 60s one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches he stated his support for those living through apartheid in South Africa. Knowing they had the support of influential leaders in the US, black communities across South Africa started to stand up to white supremacists and the apartheid regime.
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- On March 21st 1960 the African National Congress organised a march in Johannesburg to end South African Apartheid Laws. 20,000 people gathered to march for their rights. They were met with police brutality and gun violence, but they still would not let their voices be drowned out.
- The white community met the civil rights movement with fierce opposition. They believed ending apartheid would be a danger to their women and children and would destroy society. But as people outside South Africa learned more and more about apartheid, global pressure was put on the government to change.
- When de Klerk became president in 1989 he lifted the ban on protests, desegregated public facilities and began negotiations to end apartheid. Apartheid was finally dismantled in 1994, when black people were allowed to vote in the presidential election. Mandela came to power, and black people across the country finally began to see a change.
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