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“Cry Freedom” Apartheid, Steve Biko and Donald Woods
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Biko
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Banned 1.Can’t be in a room with more than 1 person (except immediate family) at a time 2.Followed/watched by the police 3.Restricted to your hometown 4.Can’t write or publish anything Steve Biko and Donald Woods were banned
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Steve Biko-Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement
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Donald Woods
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What is Black Consciousness? "The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity." From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976. "Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude." The Definition of Black Consciousness, I Write What I Like, 1978.
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"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die." Steve Biko
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Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior." STEVE BIKO
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The Soweto Student Strike-1976 Over 700 black School children were murdered by the white police during this incident They did not want to learn Dutch Afrikaans anymore- the oppressors language
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A Soweto Slideshow http://www.radiocampustoulouse.com/a nim_riots.htm
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