This photo collage, incorporating elements from Ernest Cole's pictures, tells the story of the tragic 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 black South Africans lost their lives at the hands of the...

2025年2月14日 · Apartheid was a policy in South Africa that governed relations between the white minority and nonwhite majority during the 20th century. Formally established in 1948, it sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. Apartheid legislation was largely repealed in the early 1990s.

The United Nations Security Council, in its action toward anti-apartheid policy, adopted Resolution 134 in the wake of the killing of 69 peaceful African protestors by the police. Summary. Apartheid policy in South Africa was started by the Dutch and English colonisers. Under this policy, whites and non-whites were racially segregated and ...

Apartheid (/ ə ˈ p ɑːr t (h) aɪ t / ə-PART-(h)yte, especially South African English: / ə ˈ p ɑːr t (h) eɪ t / ə-PART-(h)ayt, Afrikaans: [aˈpart(ɦ)əit] ⓘ; transl. "separateness", lit. ' aparthood ') was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa [a] (now Namibia) from 1948 ...

Hundreds of students staged a sit-down protest against apartheid in front of the South African Embassy on 19 October 1985. In a national week of student solidarity more than 300 colleges all over the country took some form of anti-apartheid action.

Explore South Africa's history through unique Interviews, chronological Units, in-depth Essays, or collections of Media on key events in the struggle against apartheid. Curricular materials are in the For Educators section.

This course introduces students to the spatial, legal, economic, social and political structures that created apartheid in South Africa, and to the factors that led to the collapse of the racist order.

2016年6月5日 · What was apartheid? Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. Apartheid called for the separate development of the different racial groups in South Africa.

2024年8月22日 · From genocide in Darfur to fossil fuels to the war in Gaza, students have explicitly invoked the traditions, symbols, and lessons of the fight against South African apartheid. Consequently, it is worth revisiting the evolution of this movement on college campuses.

This course introduces students to the spatial, legal, economic, social and political structures that created apartheid in South Africa, and to the factors that led to the collapse of the racist order.