Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
South Africa operated under a system of apartheid from 1948 until the early 1990s, during which the country’s White minority governed over the non-White majority through a series of racist and ...
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...
An untitled, undated photograph of a Black man holding a copy of "Muhammad Speaks," the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam. The image, taken by South African photographer Ernest Cole, is ...
Organized by the National Peace Action Coalition and the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice to protest the U.S.'s increased bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of N.V. harbors. Demonstration draws between 8,000 and 15,000 protesters. 1972 – May 27 March to protest apartheid in South Africa: 8,000–10,000 attendees. [14] 1973 ...
The Free South Africa Movement (FSAM) was a coalition of individuals, organizations, students, and unions across the United States of America who sought to end Apartheid in South Africa. [1] With local branches throughout the country, it was the primary anti-Apartheid movement in the United States.
But that protest was in 1978. And it was over apartheid in South Africa. Lawrence Hamm, who was among the protesters, said students had rallied against apartheid for 66 consecutive days before ...
As protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict continue in certain U.S. cities, we should understand that such demonstrations are a common feature of the history of this country.
March through the streets of Cape Town by staff and students of UCT in protest against the Universities Bill – 7 June 1957. 1957–1959, June, the ruling National Party embarked on the destruction of academic freedom and the imposition of university apartheid. In June 1957, UCT students and staff marched through the streets of Cape Town in ...