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Open the jail doors--we want to enter : the Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws, South Africa, 1952
Author
Title
Open the jail doors--we want to enter : the Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws, South Africa, 1952 / Stuart A. Kallen.
ISBN
9780822589693
0822589699
Published
Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, ©2011.
Physical Description
160 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
Summary
This riveting story of the long struggle against apartheid in South Africa explores the reasons why thousands were willing to die in the fighting for civil rights and how their courageous efforts led to the day in 1994 when Nelson Mandela stood before thousands of free South Africans as the nation's first black president.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2015
Series
Civil rights struggles around the world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Contents
The Cape Colony
Remarkable riches and racial intolerance
Implementing apartheid
The campaign of defiance
Violent resistance
The end of apartheid.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Juvenile works.
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