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...political change. South Africa will change, as Rhodesia, Mozambique and Angola changed, as Algeria and the United States changed: by political settlement. Black South Africans are organizing, and they have rejected peaceful struggle. Too many innocent, unarmed people have died through peaceful struggle at places like Sharpeville and Soweto. The Blacks will fight, and someday they will win, but the consequences will be horrible if they have to fight, as horrible as Algeria and Angola were when their people had to fight against entrenched racism...
...aftermath of the murder of the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko by South Africa security police and the Soweto riots that followed when the South African police killed hundreds of Black students, the divestiture movement at Harvard was revived with the founding of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC). The Harvard Corporation and the ACSR at this time recognized no special problems with corporations doing business in South Africa, but after a year of rallies, pickets and packed ACSR hearings, culminating in a 3000- (yes, that's three thousand) person torchlight parade and day-long blockade of University Hall...
...student groups whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed they say the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparkled by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
Outtraged by gross disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students noted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African Police. Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Black and whites in South Africa that-persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots rally generated an enormous amount of students activity [on U.S campuses]. "Says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start...
Outraged by gross disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students rioted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police. Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start...