Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week as if he were the last surviving custodian of the white man's burden. At one stop, an enthusiastic crowd knocked him off the roof of a car, but Robert F. Kennedy hardly missed a comma. "I believe there will be progress," he exhorted the residents of Soweto, a black ghetto near Johannesburg. "Hate and bigotry will end in South Africa one day. I believe your children will have a better opportunity than you did." Unaccustomed to such solicitude from a white politician, the Sowetoans devoured Bobby's every word and seemed ready to consume the speaker...