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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781949203321

Autore

Lodge Tom <1951->

Titolo

Sharpeville [[electronic resource] ] : an apartheid massacre and its consequences / / Tom Lodge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-161999-X

1-283-34848-9

9786613348487

0-19-161734-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Collana

The making of the modern world

Disciplina

968.058

968.223058

Soggetti

Sharpeville Massacre, Sharpeville, South Africa, 1960

South Africa Race relations

South Africa Politics and government 1961-1978

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Plates; List of Maps; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1. Voices from a Massacre; 2. Pan-Africanist Preparations; 3. The Sharpeville Shootings; 4. The Cape Town Marchers; 5. Aftermath: Effects and Consequences; 6. The Anti-Apartheid Movement; 7. Sharpeville and Memory; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black andwhite in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movemen